married Emmi Delbrück. The day after the wedding, he traveled with his parents to Bremerhaven, and at eight thirty on the morning of the sixth, they escorted him onto the ship Columbus. They explored the vast ship together for two hours and then said their good-byes. They snapped a final picture from the dock as he waved down at them from the ship’s railing. At eleven thirty, the ship weighed anchor. The Columbus was a splendidly appointed thirty-three-ton ship, Germany’s fastest and largest, and the very