War outbreak, the first days

On 2 August, the mobilisation order was followed by the declaration of war. Lothar returned from the war college in Danzig to his regiment, the 4th Dragoons in Lüben. And Manfred? While the garrison here presented a feverishly moving picture in an unexpected abundance of people and thoughts were still buzzing about what would happen, he rode as a young Uhlan lieutenant against the enemy in the east. And under him walked ‘Antithesis’, the English thoroughbred that I had given to him, the well-travelled, passionate rider. On the same day that it was to carry him to victory on the racecourse in Poznan, it carried him across the border - on patrol against Russia.