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Postcard from ww1 hostage intresting last name is braun I have more
 
Go to GOOGLE, and type: French to English translator. That should help give you a general idea of the content.

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Breezie
 
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Here is other side

This is front
 
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Mr. G. Braun Liecle Geneve Hotel. We have received your letter of September 15 in which you translate for us the letter from Ms Reichling. We will be happy to take care of the necessary measures, but we do not deny that we have little chance of success of the child we.... I can't make out the last word on the side of the card before the persons name (Mme. Reich...)

German last names are very common in France especially in the Strasbourg area of Alsace-Lorraine... but pronounced as in French, thus the comedian Stephen Colbert's name becomes Colbear....
 
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...something like this...

As they are Belgian, it is almost impossible to take Belgian children out of Belgium especially when their parents did not live in the pre-war France. However, we will do what we can. With the assurance of notes considered lawful.
 
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