Seven months earlier, Russia and Germany had divided Poland between themselves, and his first job was to negotiate the movement of Russian, Ukrainian, Volkdeutsch, and Polish farmers across newly drawn borders to their proper territories. Willy Reinhart was very good at this, earning praise from all sides. Within a year, he was the Reich Regional Commissioner of Agricultural Products and Services, administering over the districts, towns, and villages of the Włodawa sector. He was directed to take up residence in Adampol Palace, a white baroque villa belonging to the Earl of Zamoyski, recently relocated to Paris. Nestled in the heart of an ancient wood, the villa had been used as a hunting lodge; the earl had invited aristocratic acquaintances from all over Europe to shoot red deer, elk, boar, bison, wolves, lynx, and bears. A starchy, thin-lipped wife arrived from Breslau with two dark-haired boys and was duly installed in the castle. It wasn’t long before the trunks were loaded back into the wagon, the wife and boys deposited at the station.
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