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I felt pleased for the trust that Oskar put on me.
–Other thing Kurt –Continued–. I know that you will let pass what happened today and
forget it soon, because thus is your generous character, but this time I will give you my advice:
talk with you Tutor and tell him everything that occurred today! Incredibles things are
said about the spiritual powers of Rudolph Hess; no one better than him to analyse the the
indescriptible attitude of Ernst Schaeffer. Promise me that you’ll think it, at least.
–I’ll think it, I will –I said surprised for the suggestion of Oskar–. I promise you,
although I won’t see the taufpate until the next month, for the graduation.
We bade farewell each other and one hour later, I was getting on the train towards Berlin
plunged immersed in profound musings.
Chapter XI
The ceremony of the end of classes was realized, along with other schools, in a great
festival, with massive parades of the Hitler’s Youth, which culminated in the Stadium of Berlin.
There the major staff of the Third Reich, leaded by the Führer, established a direct
contact with the youth by means of speeches and proclamations.
Dad had come from Egypt especially to assit to the graduation, being invited by Rudolph
Hess to concur to a party to be held in the Chancellery. This would be, in my opinion, the
expected opportunity to clarify many enigmas.
At the 10 pm went up the marble stairs of the Chancellery. Dad, stylishly dressed with
jacket, and I, with the uniform of the Hitlerjungend, not seemed out of place amongt the
numerous concurrence that already filled the great Hall of the Eagle, forming different
murmuring huddles of voices and laughs. We crossed the hall towards the enourmous house of
carved marble, searching for Rudolph Hess, while over our heads a spider of colossal
dimensions was shedding torrents of light, smoothly cushioned by thousands of pieces of
baccarat crystal. I had never seen so many distuingushed people gathered. There were all the
leaders of the New Germany, the Dr. Goebbels, the Marshal Goering, the Reichführer Himmler,
Julius Streicher… And in a separated corner we distuingished a group formed by Rosenberg,
Rudolph Hess and Adolf Hitler. Dad, fearing to interrupt a reserved conversation, indicated me
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