Europe in September 1939..

“Willi had meanwhile visited the waiters in the German dining car. He reported to me that they all envied him for his position in neutral Holland and felt no desire at the thought of returning to Germany now.

The waiters had little opportunity to change their fate, but the diplomats did. Therefore, I carefully went through the lists of their names in the hope of finding that one or another had slipped away. They were all there. Like a herd of sheep, all my colleagues had allowed themselves to be herded back into Hitler's slaughterhouse.”

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(Via “Putlitz. Unterwegs nach Deutschland)