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.The soldiers whowill die now, in battle or in Russian prisoner- ofwarcamps, will be as muchvictims of the of cer corps failure to act as are the people the Nazis areslaughtering in concentraion camps.I put it to you, Hansel, that your allegiance should be no longer to theLuftwaffe, or the Germans Plate, but Germany, and to the family, and to thepeople who have lived on our land for so long.In this connection, your rst duty is to survive the war.Under nocircumstances are you to return to Germany for any purpose until the war isover.Find now someplace where you can hide safely if you are ordered toreturn.Your second duty is to transfer the family funds from Switzerland to Argentinaas quickly as possible.You have by now made contact with our friend inArgentina, and h will probably be able to be of help.In any event, make surethe funds are in some safe place.It would be better if they could be wiselyinvested, but the primary concern is to have them someplace where they will besafe from the Sicherheitsdienst until the war is over.In the chaos that will ensue in Germany when the war is nally over, the onlyhope our people will have, to keep them in their homes, indeed to keep themfrom starvation, and the only hope there will be for the future of the vonWachtstein family, and the estates, will be access to the money that IA haveplaced in your care.I hope, one day, to be able to go with you again to the village for a beer anda sausage.If that is not to be, I have con dence that God in his mercy willallow us one day to be all together again, your mother and your brothers, andyou and I in a better place.Page 74ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlI have taken great pride in you, Hansel.Poppa Peter was at first at a loss about how to accomplish his father'sdirectives.He could not, he was all too aware, succeed on his own.Yet whomcould he go to for help? Whom could he trust? Having nowhere else to go, andremembering Cletus's pledge, Peter brought the letter to Cletus Frade.Since neither spoke the other's language, their conversation was in Spanish.Cletus said, "I don't know what you want me to do.For one thing, I can't read German.So the letter won't mean a thing to me.For another, I don't know how I can do you any good.Secretly transferringmoney between countries is not one of my regular accomplishments." "Forgive mefor wasting your time, Senor Frade," Peter answered frostily."Don't get a corncob up your ass, Fritz," Cletus said."My father speaks German, and I think he would consider my debts his.And Iowe you." He saw the surprise and concern on von Wachtstein's face, and added,"I also suspect he's into this chivalry and honor shit, too." When el CoronelFrade did in fact translate the letter for Clete (he was doing it aloud), thetears running down his cheeks and the tightness in his throat made it hard forhim to make it through to the end.Though he, too, had to admit that he was at a personal loss about handlingPeter's problem, he knew who could handle it: "My sister's husband, HumbertoDuarte, is Managing Director of the Anglo-Argentine Bank." "You think he willhelp, mi Coronel?" von Wachtstein asked."Of course he will," el Coronel Frade said."And not only because he isCletus's uncle, and Cletus's debt to you is a family debt, but also because hehas believed for years all the terrible things people have been saying aboutyour Fuhrer and the Nazi party." Humberto Duarte not only proved to be willingto help, but more important, he knew all the tricks necessary to transferfunds in absolute secrecy from numbered Swiss bank accounts to accounts inArgentina.Peter's relief was, however, short-lived.His father was not the only Germanwho had been thinking about survival should Germany lose the war.The very next Lufthansa Condor flight from Berlin to Buenos Aires hadaboard in addition to el Coronel Juan Domingo Peron, who had returned to takepart in the coup d'etat against President Castillo Standartenfiihrer-SS-SDJosef Luther Goltz.Both Ambassador von Lutzenberger and Peter von Wachtstein thought the SSofficer had been sent to find out what he could about the sinking of the Reinede la Mer, but that was not his purpose.His orders had much more to do with the various missions associated with thesoon-to-be-arriving "neutral" Spanish vessel Comerciante del OceanoPacifico the repatriation of the interned officers from the GrafSpee; thereplacement of the Reine de la Mer as a replenishment vessel for U-boats; andfinally and most secretly the transfer of funds to be used for theimplementing of Operation Phoenix.Standartenflihrer Goltz presented this information to Ambassador vonLutzenberger and his old friend First Secretary Anton von Gradny-Sawz.Page 75ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlAmbassador von Lutzenberger, recognizing the threat Operation Phoenix posed towhat he and Peter were doing with the von Wachtstein money and other moneyentrusted to him by other friends decided that Peter had to know, and told himeverything.The next day, Peter had flown Standartenflihrer Goltz to Montevideo in theFieseler Storch, where Goltz met with Sfurmbannfiinrer Werner von Tresmarck,the SS-SD man at the German Embassy in Uruguay.Von Tresmarck's wife, whom Peter had known in Berlin, presumed he knew whatwas going on and revealed to him the source of the Operation Phoenix fundsavailable in Uruguay.It came from the families and friends of Jews inconcentration camps in Germany.For a price, the SS would arrange for therelease of Jews from the death camps and their travel to Uruguay andArgentina.Peter had then been faced with another moral decision.On one hand, his stomach turned at yet another proof of the incredible moralbankruptcy of the Nazi hierarchy generally and the SS specifically.On the other, to reveal this state secret, and what he knew about the OceanoPacifico, to a man he knew was an agent of the OSS was not only treason, pureand simple, but also personally painful [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]