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followed carrers that were no military, ended the University and realized a doctorate in
Philosophy and Letters, in Laws, or in Mathematics and Exact Science.

A great part of the graduates, aspired to be incorporated to the Waffen for it they
had to submit to rigorous tests to ingress. But for the Selective Body, this ingress was
authomatic, because very huge had been the effort that the homeland had deposited in our
training. And also, we were just ninety graduated who aspired to the grade of Ostenführer of

the .

It could be thought that a great joy impounded everyone, and that was true in regard to
my eighty nine mates. I, instead, feelt my happiness besmirched by a strange success that
deserves to be mentioned in this narration, for the posterior implications that it had.

At the end of the studies the first promotion of the Selective Body, –From which I
formed part– one of our Professors, Ernst Schaeffer, threw himself to the task to select a small
group for a «especial operation». The rumor that such operation was in reality an important
mission in Asia started to circulate, whereby a subsequent state of general excitation was
produced. There was no one who not yearned to participate in the ultra-confidential mission
that, it was said, had been commended by the own Reichführer Himmler in person.

The Professor Ernst Schaeffer dictated chairs of oriental religions, especially Buddhism,
Vedism, and Brahmanism with singular erudition, but was not officer of the but of the
Abwer¸ the Secret Service of the Admiral Canaris. For this reason the conjectures indicated
that the mission in Asia would be an operation of spionage, perhaps in India or Rusia.

Our small group of pilots of the Flieger –H.J. had not been included in the selection by
some reason that we ignored and, enven though the rigid internal discipline demanded
absolute obedience and subordination, I didn’t think to be breaking any norm if I offered
myself as volunteer. I didn’t know the destination of the mysterious mission, but the
enthusiasm to be admitted made me think that the knowledge of ten oriental languages would
be a good argument to fulfil my objectives.

According to this conviction I went one day to meet with Ernst Schaeffer. He was in
classroom with a group of six Comrades of the Selective Body, giving them some type of
instruction. Just one sight to the blackboard, where sheets with human bodies covered with
lotus flowers were hanging, was enough for me to know that he was giving explanations about
the physiological ancient concepts of the Tantra Yoga.

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