It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.
If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.