The Mistery of Belicena Villca
The war of 1914 ruins all plans . Dad is claimed by my family to Cairo , where he returns when conflict breaks out and remains there definitely because by taking charge of the Sugar Refinery he will no longer be able to conclude his studies .
Rudolph Hess , who only stayed one year in Switzerland , was in Hamburg improving his skills in Foreign Trade and did not hesitate to enlist in the First Bavarian Infantry Regiment . He was wounded twice , in 1916 and 1917 , receiving the Iron Cross for acts of heroism . In 1918 he entered the newly formed Imperial Air Corps , being instituted as a qualified pilot , but without intervening in aerial combat since in November 1918 the armistice is signed and he is demobilized .
He returns to Egypt bearing a double sadness : the defeated Germany is torn apart by the Treaty of Versailles and his parents have died during the war . Family businesses are run by his brothers , the elder Alfred , who is an accountant and a married sister .
He does not want to engage in trade , and so he makes this known : he intends to return to Germany to study , not mathematics , but History or Philosophy .
His time in Egypt is spent searching for answers to so much misfortune . Answers that only the Initiates of the great Islamic or Gnostic Sects can give , of which Alexandria in particular and Egypt in general is fertile seedbed .
But I will leave for another day the account of the Esoteric Current in which Rudolph Hess was going to enter in those days of 1919 , in Egypt , which would take him to Adolf Hitler in 1920 and England in 1941 . I will continue with the chronological development of the main events of interest to the story and , then , we will analyze these things .
Uncle Kurt was , apparently , an accurate storyteller , who knew what he meant and he didn ' t shy away from it . I realized that it would be several days until he would complete his memories and this prospect rejoiced me .
– In February 1919 --Uncle Kurt continued imperturbably-- Rudolph Hess traveled to Cairo to visit Dad and another friend , Omar Nautais . They met for the first time in six years , with the consequent mutual joy and my mother ' s who also knew Rudolph from childhood .
Dad had gotten married in 1917 and on 11 / 17 / 1918 I was born so in that date , February 1919 , I was three months old . Since I had not yet been baptized , Dad asked Rudolph to be my godfather , to which Rudolph gladly agreed because he loved my parents very much and wished to give them a token of his affection .
The ceremony was held at the Lutheran Church in Cairo , a fresh morning of February 1919 , the 17th to be exact .
Here you have , neffe , a first coincidence – said Uncle Kurt in a reflective tone-- for that young 25- year-old war hero who took me in his arms , would be fifteen years later Minister of State of Germany and the trustworthy man of Chancellor Adolf Hitler , his Stellvertreter 2 .
In Egypt , as in all foreign countries , the German community organized for the training of his children , the Hitlerjugend , Hitler youth , with the veiled supervision of the military attachés to the German Embassy . Within this movement , there was a " junior " group called Jungvolk 3 for children from 10 to 15 years old , which I entered at the age of 10 , when I was still studying primary school at the German College in Cairo .
I graduated in 1932 and Dad decided to send me to Germany to pursue secondary education . I was then 14 years old and held the title of Faehnleinsführer at the Hitlerjugend .
The following year , in July 1933 , we left Alexandria on a merchant boat that , with few stops , went directly to Venice ; from there we would continue by train to Berlin .
In those days Rudolph Hess was a very important character in the Third Reich and incredibly popular within the members of the German community of Egypt who felt gratified with the triumph of one of their own . Rudolph worked hard all those years to contribute to the victory of the Führer and with the exception of a few trips every year or two , he had completely abandoned his first Egyptian homeland . Yet he never forgot his friends , who were not many , nor his godson Kurt von Sübermann .
Invariably we received a Christmas card every year and when in the Jungvolk we needed a drum , I remember Dad urged me to write a letter to my prestigious godfather , who not only responded kindly with a letter in which he encouraged me to study and persevere within the Hitlerjugend , but took care of my childish request .
2 Stellvertreter : Lieutenant .
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Jungvolk : literally “ Children of the people ”.
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