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<p>[Page 32]</p><p>guarantee a lasting peace. Still, our diplomats will reason that a short peace with Russia is better than no peace at all.</p><p>30th/12/17.<br />Christmas, the 4th in captivity, has once again passed quietly. Although the food was better than on ordinary days, and we had theatre and a concert, the mood just wasn't festive. How festive can it be anyway, with no freedom in sight. One tends to become rather apathetic in this regard, and there is probably nobody left in camp who has realistic hopes of a release before the end of the war. Obviously, your thoughts on such days are with your far-away wife and kids, but there's no real point in committing those thoughts and sentiments to paper. Captivity eventually kills off all the good in you, and what remains is nothing but wrath, borderless wrath and hatred towards these English villains. May God make sure they don't escape their just punishment.</p><p>Apparently our government, via some neutral intermediaries, has tried once again to reach a peace agreement, or at least it hoped to get them [its enemies] to the</p>