On 13 January, Jarausch thanked his wife for all her letters. ‘The love which speaks from them warms me and fills me with thanks,’ he assured her. ‘Now, take care, you and the child.’ He did not tell her that he too had contracted typhus and was writing from the field hospital at Roslavl. A fortnight later, Konrad Jarausch was dead. By that time, at least two million Soviet prisoners had perished in German custody.
