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Extract from Malita von Rundstedt’s propaganda text “The woman's trench”, 1916

“And so I would ask you, German woman, write only Sunday letters to the field!”

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Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK, Signatur: Krieg 1914/15187 <5>

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    Women! Don’t write gloomy letters!

    The daily newspapers in Austria and Hungary published frequent appeals urging women to send only cheerful and edifying letters to their relatives at the front.