The Daughter of the Führer

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《Wake up, little princess! 》He's calling me, Frantz, but I'm turning away: ignoring him.《If you want to talk to your father, you have to wake up! 》Daddy! True, I'm talking to Dad today!
《Ready! 》 I leap out of bed, scaring Frantz a little too.
《Holy God! Don't ever jump like that again! 《Excuse me...《Come on, I'm going to call him》I follow him like a puppy dog to the hotel entrance counter, where the only phone available for calls is.
《I have to make an important call to Berlin, now! 《Frantz declares in a cold tone to the man behind the counter, so much so that the latter is slightly trembling.《Yes, of course》 the man answers, and awkwardly hands him the phone《Here's the phone》
Frantz signals him to leave, and the man doesn't let him repeat it a second time and closes the door behind him.
《Then, don't make a sound until I tell you, okay? 》he admonishes me, him serious《All right》
He dials a sequence of numbers and then picks up the handset, ready to receive an answer.
《Heil Hitler! Hallo! Obergefreiter Schmidt, ich muss sofort mit dem Führer sprechen!(Hello! Corporal Schmidt, I must speak to the Führer immediately!)》I can hear him talking to someone in German... I hope father will accept and understand that I don't speak German very well...
《Dann warnen Sie ihn sofort! Dies ist eine wichtige Angelegenheit!(Then warn him immediately! It's an important matter!)》I hear him raise his voice, I think he's not having a good conversation, and I'm sure it's not my father on the other end of the phone!
《Danke, endlich!(Thank you, at last!)》I hear him sigh, then he looks at me and signals me to be quiet with a finger on his lips, I nod and continue looking at him.
《Heil Hitler! Guten Morgen Herr, Kaporal Schmidt Berichterstattung, ich freue mich, Ihnen mitteilen zu können, dass ich Ihre Tochter gefunden habe. (Good morning Herr, Corporal Schmidt reporting for duty, I am pleased to inform you, that I have found your daughter. )》《Ja, sie ist hier bei mir, sie würde gerne mit Ihnen sprechen...(Yes, she is here with me, she would like to speak to you...)》《Ja, in Ordnung, sicher Sir, Auf Wiedersehen! Heil Hitler!(Yes, alright, certainly sir, goodbye!)》she looks at me with a face of someone who feels pity.
《Won't I hear from Dad?》《I'm sorry but he has a meeting now so he can't stay too long, it'll be for another time!》《Yes, now that he knows I'm with you, I'll be able to hear from him another time!》《Exactly》he messes up my hair, which already wasn't the prettiest and especially neat and combed, but now it looks like a bird's nest! What's more, a very badly made one!
《Come on, let's go back to the room, you have to change: you can't go around the world in your nightgown! 》 she points out to me, that I'm still wearing my pyjamas... how embarrassing!
I run towards the room: I have to change, quickly!
I leave it there, in the room as I walk up the stairs towards Heidi's room: where my backpack with my clothes is inside.
《Hello, Heidi!》 I greet her as I enter the room, she turns around and jumps slightly in surprise: he must have had a stroke when I wasn't in the room this morning!
《Oh, it's you... Where have you been? You weren't there this morning, do you know how scared I was!》 she scolds me, finishing combing her hair with the brush.
《I went to Jakob... I had a nightmare and wanted to change beds...sorry...》《Be quiet, but next time, wake me up! I used to take you to Jakob, so you wouldn't risk getting lost! 》she scolds me《I'm sorry...》I see her sigh, and then she smiles at me.《It's fine, the important thing is that you're fine, did you at least sleep? 》she asks me, sometimes she looks like mum in Poland...she looks... 《Yes, I slept well...》I can see her calming down a bit.《Perfect, today we'll have to arrive in Switzerland or maybe even Germany, aren't you happy?》she asks me while putting the brush back into her suitcase.《Yes, very much》I admit, because I really want to go to daddy!

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