yes salon's only thoughts could not be reassured his visit to berlin in december nine hundred sixty seven became a trip to the heart of darkness he went to the starting point of the violence the place where death a master from germany did his work railway car by railway calm. this was the station west thirty years earlier he had stopped on his journey to paris the day after the christan after. go to the butcher's hooks he was to write in a poem. went to. where so many opponents of the nazi regime were executed. undaunted he continued his tour of the topography of terror.