““Marlene and I drove on. When we reached the Allgäu region, I remember stopping in a meadow at one point. We looked all around us. We could hardly believe it. Not one single bomb crater, no antiaircraft guns, no military columns anywhere. Marlene laughed. She was happy. She got out and skipped across the meadow, waving at a cow. I was so overcome with joy, I thought the cow might wave back any second.””
