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Sir. Stroheim, Helga's uncle, had been told about Walther Stormann's plans to

open an office in Hamburg. Although Stormann had chosen humble premises, he
was anything but humble when it came to telling business associates about his

plans to expand the business.

Quickly, Stroheim, who supplied machines to Kräsen and serviced the milking
machines, had seen its cut to obtain its niece a job. Not only did he mean that

Helga would be a profit for the group. In that way, he later told Dieter, he also

escaped to listen to his little sister's eternal concerns and annoyances over the
daughter, whom her sister believed had unrealistic and grandiose beliefs about a

life of luxury. This was something that stood out in in sharp contrast to the little
sister's modest and humble approach to life.

One morning three weeks ago, Stroheim burst into the office. Diets had been

boiling water for today's first cup of coffee by the shabby stove, which had
somehow survived from a distant time.

"I've got you and your father a secretary," Stroheim almost roared, after which

he had pushed Helga, who hid behind the door, forward so she fluttered in the
middle of the room.

Eventually, Dieter had taken on more and more tasks from his father. A moving
generation change, although Walther Stormann always had the last word when it

came to Kräsen, and although Stormann senior still spent many hours in the

company. But it was Dieter himself who had insisted on leaving the farm to boost
the company up north.

After the war, German business and industry had run amok. The tone was
harsh and everyone was each other’s rival. The business community became

Germany's new battlefield. The year's entrenched entrepreneurial spirit was

now running freely, pumped up by aggressive American propaganda and an
extremely black market.

The first years after the war, Dieter had been gripped by euphoria, but as

the years went by, and the war gradually seemed to be lost in oblivion at the new
altar of greed, the work of Kräsen teased him a little. And he especially did not

care about many of the new, keen entrepreneurs.
In secret, Dieter was beginning to investigate the three bunkers still lying as