She handed him the letter, which he took and read with more than a little curiosity; it was the first time since the start of the great patriotic war that he had ever had any communication with a German. Much to his surprise, the German’s Russian was as courteous as it was good, and the letter affected him more than he could have explained.
To the Red Army officer now in charge of Simferopol
From Captain Joachim Stammer, of the German field police