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Disguising yourself as a peasant, you travel southwest through Germany to the town of Regensburg, constantly alert to army and police patrols that are checking identity papers. Even though you have taken the documents of a dead Aryan German, you doubt that you could really bluff your way through a thorough check. Fortunately, you are never challenged.

Once in Regensburg, you sign up as a crew member on a barge that is headed down the Danube River, which flows past Vienna and through the middle of Budapest. Because the barge is carrying supplies to the German army in Austria, it is able to pass along the river without intensive scrutiny, and you set foot on the levee on the Pest side of the Danube. Since Hungary is not under German control, you feel much safer than before. In Budapest, you seek out some distant relatives and arrange to stay with them.

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