I wonder who this "mein lieber Hans-Günther" is or was, who got twenty years of age in December 1943 and whose Aunt Kläre was living in Kiel, for this is the dedication I found in a copy of "König Heinrich IV.- Erster Teil" ( King Henry IV - Part I). In fact I'm wishing him good luck still for the years of his life he had yet to come, for there were also parts of the text marked and it was mainly those parts, where Falstaff would be commenting on his view of honour - a highly dangerous view to hold in Germany at the time -, but also one that eventually would have helped this Hans-Günther to survive (if he had managed to keep it to himself).
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