I have been reading a book by Justin Cartwright, an ex Cape Town boy now living in London, called The Song Before it is Sung, a fictionalized account of one of the plotters who planned to assassinate Hitler and, after it failed, his terrible end strangled and hanging from a meat hook in a cellar. In the book the main character, Axel von Gottberg, was modelled on the diplomat, Friedrich Adam von Trott zu Solz. On returning to the family property in Pleskow, his wife wrote:
“… I knew that he would enjoy the ride back from the station and a chat with Wicht, the chance to breathe in his beloved landscape, and revel in the sense of arriving back home … catching sight of the house just before the…