On May 10, 1941, Rudolf Hess took off for England after several months of secret training flights. Neither his secretary, Hildegard Fath, nor Rudolf Hess' adjutant Leitgen, were capable of giving a convincing explanation as to why, although both knew about the preparings, they kept their tongues. Hildegard Fath spent the next few months in a Gestapa investigation cell.

At noon on May 14, her brother Siegfried Fath dined with his Chef de Margerie in Paris (according to teh accountability records of MUNDUS submitted to the Inf.Abt.), then set out for a pre-wedding vacation of several weeks to Germany, where he postponed both - vacation and wedding - to Greece due to a sudden recall. Siegfried, about whom the joke goes around in the family that he would - if ever - after the Third Reich  – will at least make up for the wedding, but not before November 1946 (serving at that moment in teh American army) . Books by him, the bookseller, remain as empty as the gold-printed books that one puts on the shelf, as someone does to illustrate an empty knowledge....

 

Uncertainty about what was happening ("great unrest") can be found in the diary of Mathilde Fath, mother of the two, living in small town of Freiburg in teh Black Forrests. A kind of anxiety that her eldest daughter Thilde Ritzel is unable to calm down: Thilde, overridden has to take care of her grandson, Mathilde's great-grandson, at the same time, since her son Wolfgang is preparing in Döberitz for the service in the Russian campaign and a lieutenant's license, which he will never receive - but her daughter-in-law is having fun in Zermatt, Switzerland. Wolfgang Ritzel, grandson of Mathilde, nephew of Siegfried and Hildegard Fath, leaves Vienna for Transnistria and the Ukraine on October 1, 1941, spends another evening in Vienna with the daughter of Carl Theil, a pen pal of Martin Buber (“we keep quiet a lot”) ). On the way to Kyiv, Wolfgang loses contact with his unit of armored troops in the mud and wanders back and forth between Smolensk and Brjansk, Minsk and Gomel, between the massacres of the Ko-rück for 7 weeks. The knowledge of the individual family members, their inner mental involvement in the Hess flight...”Parzival”flyer, Parzival dreamer(“he arrived safely in a foreign country"), which still meet with great resistance today .....