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"If you think you can measure it correctly, we must believe that it’s correct. But
you must know that it is a very important task you must solve and that we
require absolute perfection. On behalf of my boss – I’ll allow it"
"I do not need a snush to run around on my soil more than necessary," stated
Walther Stormann.
And so it had become. The survey for the construction of the three bunkers was
on Walther Stormann himself.
The farmhand Ernst had worked for Stormann a little longer than the
other worker, Franz. He heard his boss shout to pierce through the noise of the
haunting old Lanz tractor, which Ernst steered with deep concentration.
Like so many times before, the short peasant shouted out, that not only did they
help the area, but all of Germany. The rim could Ernst without ad. The more big
proprietor expanded his cooperation with the Nazis, the more he needed to tell
his employees that their efforts benefited the whole country.
He had been drinking, not as much as Franz and the boss, but still a lot. With one
hand he had a straight grip on the steering wheel, the other rested convulsively
on the gear lever to prevent the gear from jumping out of the tractor's worn out
gearbox.
He needed to go to bed immediately, he looked at the horizon over the
mountains with a drowsy glance. Huge, mysterious giants with snow on top. He
had never been close to the mountains before, but they had always fascinated
him.
"We are simple people. The mountains are for the learned ones. We shouldn’t
bother."
He heard his now deceased father’s voice in his head tell him. His father had the
tirade, every time he curiously asked about the mountain peaks.
Later he learned that a country named Austria was on the other side of the
mountains.
The dew fell heavily, and the nasty stench of the cow excrement caused his eyes
to tear up. When the night came, and everything got increasingly dark, it felt like
a relief after such a hot day. The sun had been burning in the sky - carelessly and
unstoppable, as the three men struggled to finish the survey.
"Take a sip before I drink it all."