I've decided to livetweet this book that I am reading for class, because I have to do a reaction and this is a good way to take notes.
The hashtag if you want to read or if you want to block it is going to be #DylHWLT

Took a short break to eat dinner and now I am back

from the diary of the German Officer... "30 December 1941. The local people who had fled the villages and hamlets are returning in great numbers, looking for food, but we must be merciless...."
Bruh..... This guy..... #DylHWLT

She notices the same thing, and reminds us that it was in the Nazi playbook on the Eastern Front. It's also why they all deserve a punch in the face at the very least. #DylHWLT

#DylHWLT She also talks about how the translators in the translating school had to memorize the Wehrmacht's charter in a portion about some troops coming in where they were on the Volga.

#DylHWLT Another point that she brings up is the need to know about the military organization of the German Army.

I am reading a part where she shares one of the translated captured documents for class- "Reminder About Extreme Cold"
They didn't really give the soldiers at the front enough....
#DylHWLT

"They were suffering from the cold. They were, damn their eyes, animate beings."
I am kind of confused about this shift in tone unless I confused somethings earlier.
#DylHWLT

"For the duration...." #DylHWLT

Okay I need to sleep. Good night and I will pick this back up in the morning.

Good Morning! It's time to pick up where we left off last night. LET'S GO!!
#DylHWLT

<they didn't know any swear words!!
<imo the first thing one should learn in any language is how to swear, especially as a translator!
#DylHWLT

<"A member of the SS, the dictionary advises, should be called a 'lacquered turd.'"
<I can get behind that. I literally LOL'D. #DylHWLT

I feel like the quote from Goethe is both very important, bordering on religious. #DylHWLT

Talking about the trip to the Volga, her story turns a bit poetic.
>"The white, frozen Volga slips past beneath us and its white, snowy banks have branches of scrub scrabbling out everywhere from under the snow. Beyond the sloping bank is white expanse where earth meets sky..."

Just a brief anxiety attack so shower and going back through last night's reading to make notes not necessarily seen here.

Since I am keeping this as a thread, I am dropping the hashtag.

So going back a little bit.
>"It is all so peculiar, so unfathomable, so monstrously beautiful and breathtaking."
>She's talking about fire fight in a blackout.
<interesting thought because this is her home, but even in nature there is a bazaar beauty in chaos.

If a tweet has my thoughts with stuff quoted or paraphrased from the book....
>book
<me

>from the diary of Lt. Grummann "the maps are so inaccurate as to be almost unusable."
< Perhaps as these were captured maps they were designed as such?

>told to ask about what Germans perceived Russian strengths to be
>T-34, stoicism of soldiers, Zhukov.
< imo- damn straight they should be scared of the T-34.

<what if.... Hitler had listened to Brauchitsch?
<but we all know Hitler was NOT the brilliant tactician he wanted people to believe.
<Sound like anyone else we know?

>Lt.- yeah, we're screwed for the winter, but just you wait until the summer!

>Lt..... and our rank ass clothes.....

Now back to where we began earlier.

#JSYK got an "interesting approach" to this thread from the prof. So going to finish in the AM