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Berlin1
8 August 1914
Dear Professor,
Your letter of 2 August has just arrived! As I do not know whether this card will still reach you in Karlsbad, I am sending two copies of it, to K. and Vienna. In a few days, when I know for certain that you are in Vienna, I will write more.
We are also well. What are your sons doing? Landsturm? Here morale has risen very high through the brilliant success of Lüttich.2 More soon, today only cordial greetings from my wife and me!
Yours,
Abraham
Eitingon is with the Austrian Landsturm as a doctor, I believe in Eger.
Postcard.
After the declaration of war on Belgium on 3 August (because Belgium had refused to let German troops march through her territory), German troops under General von Emmich had, on 7 August, conquered Liège/Lüttich, the portcullis guarding the gateway into Belgium from Germany (see Tuchman, 1962).