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was not too much what Germany commerced with Shanghai, although enough to request the
presence of the Consul; the Embassy was located in Nanking. Naturally, the Japanese presence
in Shanghai, and distrust for the imperialist Carthaginian potencies that had operated in the
region, opened promissory expectatives for Germany to obtain a major part of the loot.

The rickshaws crossed the barred fence on the run, then a well maintained garden, and
they stopped in front of the portal of a mansion of Rhenish style. A Sergeant of the Kriegmarine
approached to us while we descended.

–Heil Hitler! –saluted von Grossen–. I am the Standartenführer Karl von Grossen
in a especial mission, Sergeant. We need to see the Consul urgently.

–Yes Sir –accepted the marine–. Do the favour to give me your documents and you’ll be
attented immediately.

–We don’t have documents, Sergeant! Here you have a list with the names and military

grade of these Gentlemen that accompany me and the mine. We are all officers .

The provident von Grossen had drafted a note for the Consul, anticipating a possible
bureaucratic blockage. It said thus:

Mr. Consul of the Third Reich,

Shanghai,

We present ourselves before you, and we request to be repatriated to Germany immediately,
the Standartenführer Karl von Grossen, the Sturmbannführer Kurt von Sübermann,

the Haupsturmführer Oskar Feil, and the men coming from Buthan, the Gurkha Bangi
and the lopa Srivirya, all the integrants of the Operation «First Key», ultra-confidential, code A
I R.S.H.A., authorized: Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich.

We salute you attentively

Sign: Karl von Grossen

Commandant of the Operation First Key.

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