Word: gudrun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remote Siwa Oasis, site of Roman temple ruins and the classical oracle of Jupiter Ammon, consulted by Alexander the Great. It was to be a week-long vacation. The group included Gunther Wanderscheck, Reinhold Rimm, and Hans Hauser, together with Cairo Salesman Klaus Böhm, and his wife Gudrun. They took two Volkswagens, a sedan and a Micro Bus, and Gudrun, who took along her camera, snapped the others clowning about before they all left...
Egyptian patrols found their bodies a day or so later. Not far away were Rimm and Hauser, also dead. "The sun is horrible," Gunther had noted on another scrap of paper, while Gudrun's last snapshots showed her husband and Wanderscheck sprawled in the sand, waiting for death...
Foolishly, or perhaps delirious in the 140°F. heat, they changed into the bathing suits they had hoped to use to paddle in the salt pools at Siwa, thus exposing their skins to the merciless sun and permitting precious moisture to be quickly evaporated from their bodies. Gudrun snapped the group again, as they drained their few remaining drops of water from plastic containers. Then they split up, Rimm and Hauser staying by the bus, Wanderscheck and the Bohms setting out for help. They staggered 35 miles before dying of thirst and exposure...