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Updated: May 5, 2025
Very slowly I made my way to the door and knocked. My weakness was so great that I could hardly lift my hand. There were voices within, and a corner of the curtain was lifted from the window. Then the door opened and a woman stood before me, a woman with a thin, kindly face. 'Gruss Gott, she said, while children peeped from behind her skirts. 'Gruss Gott, I replied.
And then, "Grüss' Gott!" and the pots clink. A kindly, hospitable, tolerant folk, these Bavarians! "Grüss' Gott!" "the compliments of God." What other land has such a greeting for strangers? On May day all Munich goes to the Hofbräuhaus to "prove" the new bock. I was there last May in company with a Virginian weighing 190 pounds. He wept with joy when he smelled that heavenly brew.
Present my humble warm respects to your aunt Dorothy. I pray to heaven nightly for one of its angels on earth. Kunst, Wissenschaft, Ehre, Liebe. Die Liebe. Quick at the German poets. Frau: Fraulein. I am actually dazzled at the prospect of our future. To be candid, I no longer see to write. Gruss' dich herzlich. From Vienna to you next. Lebe wohl!
Now twenty kilometers away and coming down the highroad against Munich against the drifting little clusters of lonely men whispering in the shadows the great armies of the Kaiser, an iron monster clicking down the road toward Munich. Would there be artillery to meet them? Gruss Gott, genosse, wer shusst dort? No, they had only guns, old guns that might not shoot.
'Gruss Gott, she said in a friendly voice, and I took off my cap. I saw from my reflection in a saucepan that I looked moderately respectable in spite of my night in the woods. I told her the story of how I was walking from Schwandorf to see my mother at an imaginary place called judenfeld, banking on the ignorance of villagers about any place five miles from their homes.
The performance was given by the staff band, which never leaves Batavia, and is said to be the best in the East Indies. I give the programme: FUR'S VATERLAND MARSCH C. Millöcker. WIENER FRAUEN WALZER J. Strauss. OUVERTURE JELVA F. Reisiger. GRUSS AUS DER FERNE INTERMEZZO J. Verhulst. MARSCH UND CHOR A. D. OPER. DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE W. A. Mozart. FANTAISIE LA REINE DE SABA Ch. Gounod.
So when they made me friendly gestures to come across the frontier I returned their cheery 'Gruss Gott! and plodded thankfully across. ... And their leader, leaning from his saddle to take my offered hand, suddenly struck me in the face, and at the same moment a trooper behind me hit me on the head with the butt of a pistol." The girl's flying pencil faltered; she lifted her brown eyes, waiting.
Present my humble warm respects to your aunt Dorothy. I pray to heaven nightly for one of its angels on earth. Kunst, Wissenschaft, Ehre, Liebe. Die Liebe. Quick at the German poets. Frau: Fraulein. I am actually dazzled at the prospect of our future. To be candid, I no longer see to write. Gruss' dich herzlich. From Vienna to you next. Lebe wohl!
Among his papers was an indecent post-card not connected, I think, with propaganda of any sort, as it portrayed a bright-coloured female of ripe figure and Teutonic aspect, wearing a pair of long stockings and high-heeled shoes, and bore the legend "Gruss von München."
Feverish salutes in the shadows.... "Gruss Gott, genosse!" Was it alive? Did the revolution live? What was happening in the empty streets? Who was shooting? And the armies of Hoffmann? Gruss Gott, genosse. Under Rupprecht the armies had lain four years in the trenches.
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