21 Dec Before Christmas 1944

To Marianne Hapig and Marianne Pünder

I heard about the negative results of the efforts regarding Sperr.  So we’ll have to start all over again.  Put a piece of wood or some such thing between the bread so he’ll have to pay attention.

Keep trying to ask him to take back this statement beforehand, in writing, to the president of the People’s Court and the counsel assigned to Delp at the People’s Court….

Please tell him the information that was in the last note, because he’s suspicious beyond words and doesn’t think he’ll be left safe.  Please don’t let up, whatever happens.  God is the one I trust, not Sperr’s insight.  And yet perhaps God wants to make use of this insight.  Or perhaps not.

Can someone pick up a Christmas letter for Pünder on Sunday?  I’d really like to write to him for the feast, but won’t get to it before then.

Meanwhile, once again, God reward you and give you a blessed waiting time.  This is how it is:  wait time, hard time (Wartezeit, hartezeit).  It seems the hearing won’t be before January 15.  But it’s not yet certain.

Is there any bit of news from Munich yet?  Mother, Marianne, the church, Luise, etc.

Yours truly and gratefully,