Erich has strong reservations about the meteoric rise to power of Hitler, and his intentions, but his job obliges him to stay silent. England would like to know the contents of the papers which cross Erich's desk meanwhile the Nazi party is on the march and anyone who does not respect their Brownshirts is beaten in the street. The Fokkers are being partially assembled in Germany, then taken to Russia and stored just over the border. He is introduced to the forward seat, recently invented by an Italian rider Federico Caprilli, and sees its advantages.Įrich's English family connections are used as blackmail to persuade him to provide numbers of tanks and fighter planes. Erich is posted as quartermaster to Stuttgart, in reality to be the trainer of the eventing team. Germany could not afford to send a team to the previous Olympics, and it intends to win every event possible in the Games which it will host in three years' time.
Twelve cavalry officers compete for a place on the Olympic team. Britt, like many people in the depressed nation, believes the words of Herr Hitler when he says he knows the way to unity and prosperity. Erich doesn't want to disapprove openly so he buys Britt a fine Arab mare instead, claiming that he needs the spirited stallion for the national equestrian team.
The lady invests unwisely in a big black stallion which is too strong for her. Britt, a baroness, is of a nervous disposition and Erich treats her gently on his leave trips home, waiting for her to come to his room at night. While we see Erich with uneasy decisions to make over a request to pass information to the League of Nations, on German rearming, it is his marriage to a slightly disturbed wife which grabs our sympathy. Erich von Schellendorf, a lieutenant colonel, is a master of advanced horsemanship posted to Konigsberg. The terms of the punitive Versailles treaty have bankrupted Germany and everything from homes to pets are being sold by ordinary people. We begin the fascinating THE VERSAILLES LEGACY in East Prussia in 1933. Cleverly woven together are the strands of a precarious marriage an Olympic equestrian team and the rise of the Third Reich.
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