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In the fall of 1944, the SS Judiciary Head Office was bombed and forced to move to Prien am Chiemsee, a lakeside resort in Bavaria, about 80 km from Munich. While working in Prien, Morgen was often melancholic. Even in rural Bavaria the war could now be felt. In a letter to his fiancée, Maria Wachter, he writes,1
It is not only the oncoming fall which turns one’s thoughts to mortality. Every day it suddenly comes into view in a different form. Today and yesterday noon there were alerts. Some 350 bombers, shining like silver, passed at 4000 meters towards their site of destruction. Further away a small payload fell on peaceful farmhouses. One could feel the ground shake.
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© 2015 Herlinde Pauer-Studer and J. David Velleman
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Pauer-Studer, H., Velleman, J.D. (2015). Out of the Fray. In: Konrad Morgen. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137496959_18
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