«My love, however magnificent the nature that surrounds us is, I will not feel true happiness until I am with you. It hurts me enormously not to be by your side or that my little Albert misses his dad. I give you a huge kiss ». Although it may not seem so at first glance, these lines correspond to an excerpt from one of the hundreds of thousands of letters that, during World War II, as many ‘Wehrmacht’ soldiers sent to their wives, lovers, children and friends from the front lines. The letters therefore show the more human side of...