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he stored them there when he went to work in the Brooklyn
Navy Yard.
During the two years he worked in the Yard, he would drop
around every two weeks or so and go up to the garret to his
trunks. Just what he did on those visits, Nordenholz does not
know.
On the night Dieckhoff was subpoenaed he suddenly appeared
to claim the trunks. He told Nordenholz that he planned to
return to Germany. Just what the trunks contained and what he
did with them I (Jo not know. They have vanished.
upon Dieckhoff in the two-story house in Sheepshead
Bay where he lived. He had no intimate friends, didn t smoke,
drink or run around. The life of the German war veteran
I called
seemed
to be confined to working in the Navy Yard, returning
unobtrusively to work on ships models and making his
occasional visits to Nordenholz s garret.
home
So far as
I
could learn, Dieckhoff became a marine engineer,
w