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The Right Hand of Sleep
The Right Hand of Sleep

 


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7 Vienna, March 14, 1938

The next time I saw Himmler he was riding down the Ring in an open sedan at the Fuehrer's side, waving to the adoring crowd, smiling myopically out at them and nodding his small pale unassuming head. I was three cars ahead of him, looking back at along the bright black motorcade with a mixture of exhultation and remorse and pride, sensing on all sides of me the noises and the colors and the smells of the city I'd always known I would return to and claim. (p 304)

 

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1) Map

2) Village

3) House

4) Great-Uncle Karl

5) Dora Toula, Great-Grandmother

6) Cottage

7) Himmler

8) Memoirs of maternal grandfather, an opera conductor and composer