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to awaitat some distance, while we were drinking a coup of champagne that solicitus waiters
had given us.

After a while, Rudolph Hess turned to us and, after a word interchange with the Führer,
he came smiling.

–How are you, Reinaldo, Kurt? –He said–. Come here I’ll present you the Führer.

It was the first time that I saw Adolf Hitler at close range, infrequent honour for a
foreign student, and even if I came prepared knowing that the Führer would be in the party, I
never thought that we would be presented.

–Adolf: the Baron Reinaldo von Sübermann –Said Rudolph.

The Führer saluted Dad shaking his hand effusively but without pronouncing a word.

–Mein Patekind Kurt von Sübermann –Continued Rudolph–. Brand new graduated
from the NAPOLA, pilot and polyglot soldier, future Ostenführer of the Waffen .

I couldn’t avoide getting blush for the eulogistic presentation of the Taufpate Hess.

The Führer stretched his hand, while nailing me a cold gaze in the eyes. I felt that an
electric vibration running through my vertebral column, at the time that a kind of stomach
emptiness was tickling at the height of the umbilicus. It was a sensation of an instant, but of a
terrible effect. Such gaze, and the contact with the hand of the Führer, had worked as acid
agent in a milk pail, decomposing and dissolving my animical state. Was an instant, I repeat,
just an instant in which I felt examined inside.

Once recomposed, I observed with surprise that –something unusual on him– an
enigmatic smile was painted in the Führer’s countenance.

–From Egypt eh? –Said Hitler–. I love Egypt, wonderful land that fascinated Napoleon
and that has produced a priceless Comrade as Rudolph.

Rosenberg who to all these had been already presented was observing the scene with fun
expression.

–At seeing you young Kurt –Continued Hitler– I verify that is not casual the thing of
Rudolph. Egypt is really a «Centre of Spiritual Force»; the enigma of the Sphinx is still active.

You are the proof of it –He took Rudolph and Me, by an arm each one– that a Superior
Order guides the destiny of Germany. Two German-Egyptian, who have breathed the gnostic

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