Chapter 20:
Between December and January, Colonel Walther Model returned to Berlin.
He was such a busy man that after a single greeting, I barely saw him.
The tide of the Spanish Civil War had completely turned in favor of the Nationalist faction.
The Republican faction had completely lost the Northern Theater, and with the Nationalists pressing their advantage all the way to Valencia, the Republicans had reportedly moved their capital to Barcelona.
In the meantime, Lieutenant Colonel Richthofen had been promoted to Colonel, and he sent a long letter full of praise for the impressive military gains of the early model of the famous ‘Stuka’ Junkers Ju-87 dive bomber, and that it was the most suitable aircraft for the dive bombing we had discussed.
I had been worried about Klemens, but after seeing his letter, which had less than a tenth about his unit and was full of nothing but boasts about Raphaela, I decided to stop worrying.
That damned batchmate of mine.
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February 4, 1938