WWII JEWISH AMERICAN SOLDIER'S GROUPING

WWII JEWISH AMERICAN SOLDIER'S GROUPING
Large grouping of letters, identifications, German books, and ephemera from Fred Stern, a German Jewish Immigrant who served in the US Army. Included in lot are approximately 220 V-Mail letters, approximately 240 letters, German identification cards, restricted US Government documents to military personnel, one Hitler Wochenspruch, some German books, original 34th Division patch, newspaper clippings and articles. The letters date from 1943 to 1945 and include details about the ongoing war. A letter from April 21, 1945, reads: 'Yesterday the whole regiment pulled back to a point where we first started out and the fact is interesting, that this place is now completely safe whereas four days ago battles occurred...Yesterday coming back and a night before we had to wade through a winding river in order to evade possible minefields...We took many prisoners and their morale is not very high. Many of them looked overstrained. I did not interrogate because there is another German boy who is with the Battalion [sic] for 18 months. We only interrogate the most important points...I do not wish to be over optimistic but I am confident that we will lick the German troops here soon.' Excellent grouping with good content. Worthy of research.