Epilogue

Dieter Hess died in the infamous Berlin Containment Prison May 3o, 1918. Only a few weeks after i received his letters and poems. His only real crime was voicing his opinion against the war, to stand firmly in his beliefs and paid the "ultimate price". I later learned that it was most likely due to Fraulein Deanna Tiefenbrunn Dieter's only love, that Dieter was able to smuggle out his now famous letters and verse. It was  most likely because Deanna had a brother named Karl who held a high position in the German army, who  likely helped in getting the letters and verse out. Karl had met Dieter a few times in the prison and was the first to interrogate Dieter after his arrest, Karl was several years older than Dieter. Karl was a "realist" by nature and towards the end of the war came to the conclusion that after the Unites States had entered the war, the war was "lost" for Germany. To Karl, Dieter was just a young romantic who made a series of bad decisions, but Karl respected Dieter for standing firm in his moral convictions that the war was unnecessary. After i heard of Dieter's death in Berlin, i turned over a copy of Dieter's letter he forwarded to me and some of his verse to Herr Romain, Dieter's old friend and mentor. But Dieter's last letter to his love Deanna she kept, it read: "My dearest love Deanna, in a few weeks or less i will be forever with our Father in heaven above, always know that each night in my dreams i  have you in my arms, until we again meet in heaven you will always be in my arms in my eternal dreams..." signed, Forever Yours, Dieter. As Deanna read the letter for the first time she was sobbing and crying, her heart was "broken".  Shortly after Dieter's death in Berlin, Herr Romain published some of Dieter's verse including his controversial "The Abyss Verse" with a story in Der Munchen Zeitgemass. Again... Dieter's "The Abyss" poem caused a stir across the whole of Germany. Even in his own death, Dieter Hess outshined most men...

ISBN # 0-9727036-6-7  TEMME HAUS PRESS