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For it, before leaving, he sent him a letter requesting him an interview and informing
him the approximnate date of our arrival to Europe.

The strage ports and cities that we touched were fantastic sites for a pride
Faehleinsführer of fifteen years old who was struggling between the joy to know and the anxiety
to get there. Arrive, yes, because the wonderful was the final destination of the magical
journey: Germany.

–You look at me with incredulity neffe –Uncle Kurt apologized– and I comprehend you;
is it difficult to understand what we felt in those days the young Germans, even the foreigners
as me. Egypt was the loved homeland, the land where I was born and where I grew.

But Germany was other thing.

The Land of Siegfried and the Führer; the River Rhin and the Lorelay; of the Walkyries
and the Nibelungs. Was a «Homeland of the Spirit», where the myth was nourished, the legend
and tradition our majors.

An eternal and further homeland that suddenly would turn real thanks to that fabulous

journey. We had been educated in a mystic which formulation was: «Blood and Ground»; we
worked in consequence.

At the ends of July, full European summer, we arrived to Venice, final point of our sea
voyage, whence we would take a combination of trains towards Berlin. We were just to descend
from the Ship when the Captain announced us that we should pass through the offices, that the
company possesses in the port, to retire a message.

We arrived there, with the heart oppressed thinking in the bad news of Egypt, to find
instead, a letter with official head of the Third Reich. On it, Rudolph Hess warned us that he’d
be absent from Berlin till the second week of August but that, if we desired to visit him
immediately, we could go to the Upper Bavaria. The reason of this was that the Führer had
decided to rest some days in his Ranch «Haus Wachenfeld», over the Obersalzberg¸ in
Berchtesgaden and part of his cabinet that accompanied him staying in nearby inns. Rudolph
Hess and his wife IIse would be delighted to receive us if we decided to go there.

Dad could not hide his satisfaction because this situation was also beneficial for our
plans. On one hand we sae ourselves to travel hundreds of kilometres, due to from Venice to
Berchtesgaden are just two hundred kilometres while to Berlin more than a thousand. On the
other hand we had the possibility to interview Rudolph, out of every official protocol, without
suffer the interference of secretaries or assistants and disposing from time to talk and
remember the good years.

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