the dark, dank tunnel under the Elbe in Hamburg, which Guérin visited with his communist comrades several weeks later. Guérin also visited the slums where the men lived in ‘worm-eaten wooden houses’ and where on the walls could be seen defiant graffiti – ‘Death to Hitler’ and ‘Long Live the Revolution’.9 There were apparently still some places left in Germany where even the Nazis did not venture.

