The Mistery of Belicena Villca
One day we received a summons from the German Embassy to pick up a package , which had to be signed by Faehnleinsführer Kurt von Sübermann , that is , by me . It was the official Hitlerjugend drum painted with black and white flames and a Rune “ “ ( s ) from the old German futhark alphabet , shaped like a lightning bolt . The Hitlerjugend used a Rune " " but the Schutzstaffel 4 was authorized to employ two ( ). There was also a letter from the Reichsjugendführer 5 Baldur von Schirach in which he confirmed that at the request of the Private Secretary of the Führer , Rudolph Hess , was sending a drum to the distant Comrades of the Jungvolk of Egypt . It followed a long list of concepts and he ended recommending the use of the Hymn of the Hitler Youth :
Vorwarts , Vorwarts , Schettern die Hellen Fanfaren , Vorwarts , Vorwarts , Jugen Kennt Keine Gefahre . 6
There was the signature of Baldur von Schirach and three words : Heil und Sieg 7 . That drum and that letter gave me unjustified fame among the German children of Cairo , while stimulating my vocation to continue in the line of the Hitlerjugend . In 1933 news reached Egypt that the Führer , celebrating his 44 th birthday , would open the
NAPOLA schools that were dissolved by the allies in 1920 8 .
They would be training schools for the future German Elite and there would train the cadres of the Hitler Youth . Thinking about the difficulty of entering it being a German-Egyptian , Dad , who had the bitter experience not to be considered " true German " during his studies at Bad-Godesberg , considered the possibility of addressing Rudolph Hess so that he facilitated the admission .
To do this , before leaving , he sent him a letter requesting an interview and informing him of the approximate date of our arrival in Europe .
The strange ports and cities we touched were fantastic places for a proud 15-year-old Faehleinsführer who was torn between the joy of knowing and the anxiety of arriving . To arrive , yes , because the wonderful thing was the final destination of the magic trip : Germany .
– You look at me in disbelief , neffe --Uncle Kurt apologized-- and I understand you ; it is difficult to understand what we young Germans felt in those days , even foreigners like me . Egypt was the beloved homeland , the land where I was born and raised . But Germany was something else . The Land of Siegfried and the Führer ; of the River Rhin and of Loreley ; of the Valkyries and the Nibelungs . It was a " Homeland of the Spirit ", where it was nurtured the myth , legend and tradition of our elders .
An eternal and distant homeland that would suddenly become real through that fabulous trip . We had been brought up in a mysticism whose formulation was : " Blood and Soil "; we acted accordingly .
At the end of July , the height of European summer , we arrived in Venice , the end of our journey by sea , from where we would take a combination of trains to Berlin . We were ready to descend from the Ship when the Captain announced us that we should go to the offices that the company owns in the port , to pick up a message .
We got there , with a heavy heart thinking of bad news from Egypt , to find instead a letter on official letterhead from the Third Reich . In it , Rudolph Hess warned us that he would be absent from Berlin until the second week of August but , if we wanted to visit him right away , we could head to the Upper Bavaria . The reason for this was that the Führer had decided to rest a few days in his Villa " Haus Wachenfeld ", on the Obersalzberg , in Berchtesgaden and part of his cabinet accompanied him staying in nearby hostels . Rudolph Hess and his wife Ilse would be happy to welcome us if we decided to go there 9 .
Dad could not hide his satisfaction because this situation was , moreover , beneficial for our plans . On the one hand we saved ourselves from traveling hundreds of kilometers , since from Venice to
4 Schutzstaffel : “ protection squadron ”.
5
Reichsjugendführer : national youth leader .
6
Go Go , Trumpets sound , Go Go , Youth does not know of dangers .
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Heil und Sieg : Salute and Victory .
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The Kadete Manstelten
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In Reichcoldsgrun , Bavaria , was the " German " house of the Hess family , built by Rudolph ' s father . Yet the Stellvertreter holidays usually took place in Berchtesgaden , near the Führer ' s residence .
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