CHAPTER 52

MUNICH, APRIL 1943.

–– I TOLD YOU I CANNOT MARRY YOU, ANNIE, THEY WOULD KILL ME.

Annie von Chenck had felt boundless hatred that he did that to her, just then.

–– I left a life of luxury for someone who in the end abandoned me, I am really damned for falling in love with a priest.

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VIENNA, NOVEMBER 1939.

ANNIE VON CHENCK had just graduated from history at the Faculty of Munich and received a trip to Vienna as a gift from her parents.

The city exuded culture, and now she understood where the greatest classical music composers drew their inspiration that had spanned generations.

Annie visited Stephansdom Cathedral and a young priest was cleaning the church.

–– Good morning, Father – he said.

–– Good morning – He hesitated for a few moments trying to catch his breath for the moment – do you need anything, a prayer?

–– No... – she replied smiling – it is a very beautiful church.

–– This Gothic masterpiece is located in the center of Innere Stadt and its three hundred and forty-three steps lead to a narrow platform from which you can admire beautiful views of Vienna. Built in 1358 in the place of a church from the XXII century, this cathedral has Roman architectural remains. If you want, I can show you the rest.

–– Would be wonderful.

Father Rudolf Willmut had been an assistant in the church for two years.

While Father Willmut showed the church to Annie, telling all the curiosities about the church, Annie realized how much Father Willmut was like her fiancé who had passed away two years ago, both physically, in speech and in intellect.

Between one explanation and another, the two talked about the most diverse subjects, and they realized that they had many things in common.

Both Annie and Rudolf stayed that night thinking about each other, and both realized that they would have to give up many things if they were to want to do something crazy.

–– It's quiet tonight, Rudolf – said Father Jullius.

–– I'm just thinking, nothing much.

That night it was impossible for Rudolf to sleep, for the first time in his life he had felt something for a woman.

RUDOLF WILLMUT WAS BORN in Vienna. He was from a traditional and very wealthy family, and for generations they were brilliant politicians, the most notable they had in his city, but Rudolf lived in a dangerous dilemma that could change the course of his life forever. Rudolf felt an almost uncontrollable attraction to men, and that he had felt since he was a child.

His life alone was hell...

BEING THE FIFTH CHILD a man among seven brothers, he could never say that he hated playing football and other games typically of boys.

At school, Rudolf was the best student, his father happily planned the bright future of the only son who had drawn the Willmut family's brilliance and charisma, but at the age of fifteen, he decided to go to seminary and chase away his inner demons.

His father almost killed him so much that he beat him when he learned of his decision, after all, Rudolf was his hope of continuing his legacy, his six other children were on the verge of misery with respect to intelligence, none had avenged, everyone just wanted to know about brothels, easy women and a good life at home.

Rudolf managed to get out of bed two weeks later.

–– Did you think better, my son? – Said the father calmly, confident that he had convinced his son of the madness he would commit.

–– Of course, father, I am more and more convinced about my priestly calling, I want to serve God with my life.

I want to escape the appearance of evil, father, it is for your own good... I am the shame of the family...

His mother, in turn, always knew that Rudolf was different from other children, she saw that her eyes lacked the sparkle, as if she had been born wrong, or, in the wrong place... she knew that studies were a means of escape that she used , perhaps unconsciously or not...

–– Son – said one night – what's the problem? He knows he can count on me.

Rudolf did not know what to say or how to say it.

–– If I tell you, promise not to tell Dad.

–– Of course, son, your father is thick, perverted and useless, not worth what he eats.

–– Mother, do you know when you feel that you are not what you should be, but he is obliged to be?

–– What do you mean, son?

–– I often feel that I am not a real man, no desire for a woman passes through my heart.

–– You are too young for this, son, at the right time you will feel.

On the right time...

HIS THOUGHTS COME BACK like a whirlwind.

I'm a homosexual, I've always been... Annie is a mistake that should never have happened...

RUDOLF WENT TO THE SEMINAR and never saw his father and any of his brothers again. Although his mother came to visit him every Sunday, and just before he was ordained a priest, Rudolf had discovered that his father had committed suicide.

He would have died anyway...

Rudolf's roommate was a young German named Willian, he was very intelligent and devoted to morning prayers.

Over time, Rudolf realized that he had chosen the best path, his heart felt an immense peace of being in a place like this, where everyone wanted the same things as him, faith had freed him from his inner demons, until the day he who discovered that William was a sleepwalker.

Willian lay on his bed, and Rudolf was never the same after that day.

Rudolf didn't tell Willian anything about what happened, but over time his roommate's nightly visits became more and more frequent, until the day he had a sudden illness and died.

Rudolf almost went crazy in the following months, but with time he got used to loneliness again.

The day he was ordained a priest should have been the happiest day of his life, but his heart was crying desperately for that bitter taste that life had given him.

THOSE TWO YEARS passed quickly, his job was to show the church to visitors and replace Father Jullius in his absence – which had not happened until then.

The first thought that occurred to Rudolf when he saw Annie was:

She's an angel... she can only be an angel...

Rudolf had never felt anything like it, all women were like his mother, but that one... he had run out of breath, his heart was beating fast and there was an iceberg inside his stomach, clear signs of passion.

I can only be in love... but right now it appears in my life?

For the first and only time in his life he regretted having chosen the priesthood.

Annie had felt the same symptoms as Rudolf, the signs did not lie, after all, this was the second time this had happened.

ANNIE WAS SIXTEEN YEARS OLD when she met Hermann Harnoll - a tall, handsome, shy and very intelligent young man, but his greatest quality was his charisma, it was impossible to be close to Hermann and be sad.

The only time Annie saw Hermann speechless was on the day he asked her to marry him in front of his whole family and gave him a stuttering crisis that they both laughed about later.

From dating to engagement, it was two and a half years, the happiest they have ever had, especially for Hermann, as a doctor told him that he would only have a few weeks to live, and after meeting Annie, he had already lived two and a half years of life of extreme happiness.

Her friends said he had died with a smile on his face, and his last word was "Annie".

Annie spent six months like this.

From bed to college and from college to bed...

It was desperate for her parents to see her in those conditions, but unfortunately, only God and time would take the pain, her father had the idea of ​​giving her a trip to Vienna.

RUDOLF PRESENTED VIENNA personally to Annie, wherever they passed, they caught everyone's attention.

Father Jullius asked who the girl was, and Rudolf replied that Annie was her cousin, who had come to Vienna to surprise her. Father Jullius felt a little uneasy, if she was really his cousin, why hadn't he told her anything? And another, Father Jullius had already been in love once, and without a doubt, Rudolf loved that girl.

It is impossible to hide love through looking...

As the days passed, both realized that it was impossible to stay away from each other, but Annie needed to return to Munich, just as Rudolf needed to turn to God.

The farewell was long and sad, but they corresponded almost daily by letters.

–– You need to get away from this woman, Rudolf – said Father Jullius once – she will be your ruin, I have seen many people fall in faith because of a woman, history has proven thousands of times that a woman is ruin of a priest.

–– Father, loving is not a sin, whoever errs out of love is justified by God, after all, He is love itself.

–– But you made a vow.

–– No vow can be greater than love.

SIX MONTHS LATER, RUDOLF took three weeks off and went to Munich to visit Annie.

There her ruin began.

Annie's father – like the vast majority of Germans - was a radical Nazi, his life was the Party.

When she met Rudolf, she instinctively realized that he would be of great help to the party, in case something went wrong.

Annie and Rudolf slept together every night, and it was even more painful for them to say goodbye.

Three months later, Rudolf received a letter that would change the course of his entire life.

Rudolf, my love. I'm Pregnant...

Rudolf couldn't even finish reading the rest of the letter, that alone would ruin his plans.

Rudolf burned the letter and continued his life smoothly as if nothing different had happened.

WITH THE WAR IN THE AUGE, the letters took longer and longer to arrive, and shortly after the announcement of the birth of his son, Father Rudolf visited Annie.

For two years, Rudolf visited Annie and her son, Claus, in Germany, until the day of the ultimatum given by Annie.

–– Don't you think we should get married?

–– Marry? I'm a priest, have you forgotten?

–– I should have thought of that before, you know that.

–– I know I'm a priest, and priests don't get married, Annie, understand... they would kill me.

WITH THE END OF WAR, and the defeat of the Nazis, Europe became a hunting ground for the Nazis, but for those who managed to escape, there was a way.

The rats' path...

MONTHS BEFORE, ANNIE'S FATHER - anticipating the defeat of the Nazis to the Allies - - began to move their sticks.

Rudolf was sitting, meditating on Psalm 41, when Annie's father sat next to him.

–– How long, huh, herr Rudolf.

–– Herr von Chenck?

–– I will be simple and objective, you will take whoever I send from Europe, your destinations will be mainly Argentina and Brazil.

–– Wait...

He motioned for him to shut up and immediately Rudolf did.

–– I will not discuss details, nor need to understand at the moment, but Germany's defeat is certain, and there are many people who will pay real fortunes not to pay for their sins, I believe that both their God and I would gain a lot.

–– Sorry, Herr von Chenck, we don't do business.

–– Of course you will, after all, I take care of your son, I gave him a name, and the church doesn't need negative marketing at that moment, it would be too bad for your promotion to bishop... I hope to see you soon.

Sid von Chenck left without saying goodbye to Rudolf.

THE PROPHECY OF HIS FATHER-IN-LAW was faithfully fulfilled, and overnight, many high-ranking officials from the Nazi party, and influential people, to flee Europe, all appeared with false identities.

The Nazis killed countless priests and used their names to reach Brazil and Argentina. On one of these escapes, Rudolf saw Annie and her son for the last time.

The Vatican found out what Rudolf had done and transferred him to Italy and smothered the case of using the church's influence to bring the greatest assassins in history safe and sound to Latin America. Rudolf remained there within the walls of the Basilica of Saint Peter incommunicado until the end of his life, at the age of ninety-three years old.

ANNIE ESCAPED TO BRAZIL with her family.

Sid von Chenck had sold all his belongings and came to South America with a good deal of gold and precious jewelry.

Claus was three years old when he arrived in Brazil, and he was growing up in the same way as his father, engaged in studies and in male human anatomy.

At the age of twelve – a year before his grandfather Sid died - he discovered his grandfather's Nazi sanctuary, and he decided to initiate him into Thule's mysticism, and then into the magical world of Nazism.

The III Reich will be a thousand-year reign... it will not be a defeat that will prevent us from reigning over the lower races...

The day before his death, Sid told his grandson the truth about his father, and the same night he told his mother that he would be a priest.

Annie died the day her son was ordained a priest, he was twenty-three years old.

Claus had taken the best grades in his class and looked like a monk – so quiet – but in fact, he knew he was the one to succeed the Führer, where the old man had made a mistake, he would get it right, and the world would be at Reich's feet again.

That was how Claus started recruiting people to continue his grandfather's plans - he had left a diary, telling all the Brotherhood's secrets.

Claus had meticulously planned each step, even though he was far from Europe, he knew everything that was going on, how the investigations were going on in the Garcia and Rillencourt's case, and even about the Templar map that would take him to the Ark - that was where the Führer failed, he trusted only in the power of Longinus's spear, so he invaded Austria - France because of the Grail, but underestimated the allies, he wouldn't fail, being a priest in Brazil was the perfect cover, a hypocritical country, blinded by an almost dead religion.

CLAUS MEET LINECKER STOLFGRANN after a mass he had celebrated in a city in the interior of São Paulo.

–– Priest? I'm Claudiano Totti, I would like to confess... work from noon to midnight...

–– Of course, my son, please accompany me.

–– HEIL HITLER - Totti SAID when they were alone –– I am Sebottendorff, I was chosen as the new Grand Master of the brotherhood.

–– Welcome, my son, do you have good news?

–– Yes sir, we have already located many of the fugitives, and we are ready to begin the Judgment.

–– I do not admit mistakes Sebottendorff, a failure and I will sacrifice it.

–– I know that, sir.

The contact started there, and after that, the missions were completed very successfully, until old Rillencourt drew a dagger on the floor with his blood and ruined everything.