Erich Brandt's War Journal

[Moyayuki]

I know that it is usually frowned upon to possess a journal here in the Wehrmacht, but what do I care? It'll probably be the one thing that will help keep me sane over the next few months. Besides, if I should die, then perhaps someone will find this and know who I am. Who knows . . . I think this is just the nerves talking . . . We haven't even been sent out yet. We are still in the Fatherland and I'm already feeling nervous. I don't even want to be here . . .  

[Moyayuki]

DayhawK68

Why is it forbidden to be keep a journal Erich?

"W-well . . . I've been hearing that we're not supposed to have them. Maybe they think we'll write about something top-secret? I don't fully understand it myself."  

[Moyayuki]

DayhawK68

Oh I see. I assume you are a soldier then? If so were you forced into being one?

"Yes, I was conscripted . . . It was difficult to have to leave everything I knew behind. I was helping to take care of my ill parents when it happened. And after all my father did to try to keep me out of war, too . . . !" ._.