Lothar in Schweidnitz

...It turned out to be a cosy few hours after all. Lothar feels so comfortable at home; he's a ‘family man’. The next day I invited him for coffee with some juices. We talked a lot about Manfred. He is his role model, his mentor. He didn't talk much about his own plans. But I know him: when there was talk of aerial combat, something often flashed in his strange eyes, like on the eve of the declaration of war when we were sitting in Sopot. He probably already saw himself in a fighter plane, eye to eye with the enemy. I thought of what Manfred wrote: ‘Lothar has developed brilliantly as an aeroplane pilot...’ And I know his grit, it is in no way inferior to Manfred's; perhaps he is more impulsive, more sudden...