Wed. July 30, 1947. Frankfurt a/M.

Got here Saturday by air.

A few more words about Vienna. We had a good time. I bought Ice cream several times, took the parents to the Kahlenberg (in Mrs Dulles´car) & they were so happy! I took Muttel to Dr. Eiselsberg; the result was the same as known. The case is not too serious. She needs as much rest & pleasure as possible. I am to buy a lot of medicine in Switzerland. We also were at Gödels` office who took an X- ray & was specially nice.

The last evening, friday, was really touching. I loved them very much for their simplicity and sincerety. We broke a bottle of wine and father made a little speech, well conceived and well presented. How they had enjoyed my visit, how they hoped for more, about their life during the war & after & that they felt happy about their children. He said nice things about Hannchen too, who surely deserved them. She has been exceptionally brave & devoted. I hope she will have an easier life in future.

Saturday at 615 a.m. I was picked up by a car &went with H. to the F.J. Bahnhof. Vatel was, if anything, more upset then Muttel, but both were brave. We talked much about next year´s visit (with car) & that made them all 3 glad. H. should meet me in Paris. I would enjoy all this very much & I hope it will work out that way. With the car in Vienna, even Muttel could participate more. –I left for Tulln by military train. It seemed strange to go. I was singularly content & happy with the family & I felt I had a real home again; but I did not like the city much. The people were so queer, & the charm of the place was gone. – I saw Mayer once more, but it was painfull, though I tried my best & he has so few scientific interests. I don´t want to have anything to do with the Zeitschrift F.N. while he is there & Mahr again editor. Schams came to the apartment; very funny in his manners. He had misunderstood some of the most elementary statements in Chapt. .I. ; perhaps he does not know enough english. But at least he shows signs of interest. A talk with John revealed little; he is just too shy. He is also afraid to talk about his work. A sign of a small mind. It is then hard to help him.

About the trip: smooth. Munich badly damaged, but perhaps not hopelessly. Nürnberg, from the air, looked terrible: blotted out (to use Hitler´s phrase) – one felt sorry. But after Munich one passed over Dachau, and over Nurenberg I recalled the Nazi- criminals. That served to extinguish, to compensate the feeling of pity. It is impossible to say what one should feel in view of tragedies of these dimensions.

Here I was put up at Carlton Hotel. Enormous room facing the Bahnhof & everything is comfortable. The B. looks allright, but the ceiling is gone. The Houses around seem OK, but are empty shells. The Rhein-Main airport is US made, excellent & one might think to be in US! The Autobahn is fine; more US roads should be that way.

Spend the sat. evening with Prof. Hainz Sauermann. Has car, fine house, furniture etc. Is mostly a sociologist. We had met in Vienna some 20 years ago. He works also as consultant to Jack Bennett in Berlin. He was hard up during the war, his wife was investigated by the Gestapo, her relatives killed in Poland by the Nazis (is not jewish).

Sunday I spent with Vossler at Schloss Wolfsgarten which belongs to the Grand Duke of Hesse. More about all this later.

To-morrow I shell fly to Berlin; then probably back here & on to Rome.