The rain lasted longer than its intensity might have suggested it would. So Nagel, who was bored, suggested that we wait inside until it let up. The unknown gentleman accepted gratefully; we all introduced ourselves, shaking hands and clicking our heels together according to the fine German custom—with the inevitable moment of embarrassment in regard to Nagel when the stranger’s hand remained hovering, unseized, until its owner realized that the right hand he had aimed for was missing and the left hand was being offered in its stead. And thus, we were finally in the drawing room, please have a seat, wherever you can, yes, may I over here, wherever you like, there are no reserved seats here, if you like we can hang your jacket on that crate over there to dry out, unfortunately I don’t have an umbrella, who has an umbrella nowadays anyhow, there’s no such thing anymore, it would really look funny, so you’re a psychiatrist? Yes indeed, formerly professor at the University of Greifswald, you know. Paul Hertzog’s the name, Hertzog with “tee-zee,” if you please, then, of course, I practiced at the various war theaters. Shocks, yes? Traumatic neuroses, and so on—that’s right, I couldn’t imagine this kind of research could be done in the Third Reich, and at Greifswald, to boot, right? But weren’t the mentally ill simply done away with by euthanasia? A few, of course, regrettably, but still fairly late and depending on the war situation; however, research as such did not stop altogether, by any means—Eventually, Herr Professor Hertzog with “tee-zee” got a turnip schnapps and a cigarette made with Christa’s home-grown tobacco, many thanks, but I think I have my own somewhere, no, go ahead, it’s not Virginia of course, you’re much too kind, no, I can’t roll them, I’d rather you did it for me, you see, manually I’m awfully clumsy, why you’re amazing, with only one hand—here you are, you’ve got to do your own licking, so research you say? Yes indeed—Herr Professor Hertzog spoke very interestingly about the foundations and objectives of psychiatric research during the Third Reich, Nagel threw in Freud, yes, now, of course the man hasn’t been credited highly enough for what he did, but—well, everyone knows that Freud isn’t everything, C. G. Jung, now that’s a little closer to the bone—