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They waited a whole hour. True, Carpenter Ignatz Westenkirchner during the War fought as a private in the squad of onetime Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler. True, when Ignatz and his family were stranded in Reading, Pa. the Chancellor replied to their plea for help by sending enough money to put Ignatz, Ignatz Jr., Frau Westenkirchner and their apple-cheeked daughters aboard the S. S. Hamburg (third class) for Germany (TIME, Jan. 1). But in the bustling Chancellery who was going to tell Adolf about Ignatz? Suddenly to their rescue went tall, brooding Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl, psychic friend of the Chancellor...
...seconds Ernst had Adolf out of his overcoat. "Bless me, Natzi!" cried the Chancellor, holding out his hand to Carpenter Westenkirchner and calling him by the affectionate German diminutive of Ignatz. "Bless me, Natzi, it is nice to meet again...
After a brief, cordial chat, Chancellor Adolf made Carpenter Ignatz superintendent of the building in Munich where the chief Nazi newspaper is published. While Ignatz Jr. and Mrs. Westenkirchner burst into sobs of joy, Ignatz shook the Chancellor's hand at parting, then radiantly exclaimed to Dr. Hanfstaengl...
Many a time since then Carpenter Ignatz has remembered those days, particularly in recent months when, with his wife and three children, he has lived in Reading, Pa. and tried vainly to find work. Last summer he wrote to his old Corporal, and Chancellor Hitler remembered too! Last week came a letter from Adolf Hitler with passage money for the whole Westenkirchner family and the promise of a job in Naziism's Mother Church, the Brown House in Munich...
...would have known it!" cried joyful Ignatz Westenkirchner as he sailed on the Hamburg with his broad-beamed wife, their daughters Katherine and Johanna, and Ignatz Jr. "I read in the papers about the Putsch in 1923 when Hitler and Ludendorff tried to take over the Bavarian Government and I was real surprised. It was funny my old korps-bruder being such an important man. But he didn't forget me! "He was a brave and good soldier. I remember him well. He was a small man just about my own age. My own mustache -it's like...