Hateland by Bernard O'Mahoney

Author:Bernard O'Mahoney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-07-21T16:07:48+00:00

I declined Adolf's offer of money and paid for my own journey, which was a bit like buying the bullets for my own firing squad.

Sharing a long journey with Adolf - as Debra had once discovered - is like being strapped into a seat by a torturer who forces you to wear headphones through which the music of a stuck record is played at full blast.

I can't remember the ferry, the towns we passed through or even any real conversation between us. I can just recall his trying to 'explain' things about the Nazis. When my interest showed signs of fading, when the matchsticks holding open my eyelids fell out, he'd rant about my being an 'armchair Nazi', a 'conspirator' or merely 'blind to the enemy'.

Many years later, as I was doing a bit of research for this book, I read a tribute to Hess in a Nazi magazine. Suddenly, I felt transported back to that awful 15-hour journey with Adolf. It was like a dreadful flashback to some long-buried trauma. Adolf's ranting voice came once again to my ears, spitting terms like 'National Socialist martyr' and 'an immortal hero of the Aryan race':

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