Well, I can’t imagine that the identity of our “co-conspirator,” as Ardis noted, is a surprise to any long-term reader of Keepa. I translated this a couple of nights ago and had been working long and hard that day and ran into the final beautiful, carefully-crafted sentiment with clause piled upon clause, all dependent upon one another, and my brain literally turned off.*

I made a brave attempt, and then sent out an SOS to our local grammar cop, Mark B., and he kindly unraveled the linguistic tangles and sent a better translation. It all reminds me, once again, what a helpful and enjoyable community Ardis has built here at Keepa.

And, finally, this was probably written by Max Zimmer who was editor of Der Stern at the time and was acting Swiss mission president during the Second World War.

*”Literally” meaning “figuratively” here.

These are made more poignant because of what we know now, that the war which had begun with such high hopes in mid-summer 1914 would continue for four more terrible years, with losses of life that were unimaginable in the relatively innocent days of the fall of 1914.

Thanks, Amy, for your work in finding and translating them.