Paris 1944
We walked down the gently sloping hill to where the man had a small Volkswagen kubelwagen parked off to the side—a German utility vehicle much like the Americans and their Jeep. He politely asked Stanza to sit in the back—he even pushed the seat up and held it out of the way for her—then had me sit in the front, beside him, where he could keep an eye on me in case I was thinking we might try to escape. I saw little hope in that.
All that time walking, I thought as he drove us back through the city, gone; wasted, and now, we’re right back where we started from—and then some. German Headquarters was located at the Hotel Majestic, once owned by the Queen of Spain who lived her life as an exile there during the years of the First Spanish Republic. Don’t ask me any more about that, because when it comes to Spanish history, I know very little; but it’s probably more than Picasso can say…
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