Dezso, the only child of Lajos Weissbluth and his first wife, reappeared in Munich in 1947. For a while, he live in the suburb of Passing, on Agnes Bernhauer Strasse, in a nicely furnished room located in a Villa. He told Tommy that he was a journalist in Budapest and that he had divorced his wife in order to emigrate. He started a literature and history oriented Hungarian language magazine, but it failed or lack of a good distribution, As it became winter, and money got tighter and tighter, the furniture in his rented room kept disappearing, piece by piece, into the stove in his room. One can only imagine his landlord’s reaction. Since the magazine did network out, he ventured into various black market enterprises, one being the manufacture of “genuine French liqueur”. He had German man make the liqueur and he labeled it with a “genuine” fake label made by a Hungarian Jewish printer. His liqueur was said to have tasted very close to the real thing. Business seemed to have gone well and he lived in a rooming house with his German mistress, Ilona. He acquired a car (an Opel Cadet) and spent his money living well. He had never taken care of his teeth, which was very unattractive.
Ilona was the daughter of a high school principal and apparently loved Dezso and returned to him as long as he and Tommy were in contact. Whenever Ilona became too thin from lack of food, he sent her home to be fattened up. She always returned to Dezso as long as he and Tommy were in contact. One day while walking in Munich, he surprised Tommy by honking his car horn at him and telling him to hop in. After getting in, he told Tommy they were going on a liqueur delivery. Tommy jumped back out even quicker than he got in, not wanting to be involved in what he considers to be risky business. Tommy long remembered Dezso taking him to a wonderful lunch in an elegant villa on Munich’s Koenig Platz. They had not one but two waiters and a fantastic multi-course meal. Dezso certainly knew how to spend money when he had it!
Sometime before he departed Hungary, he visited Mezocsat and sold whatever of the Weissbluth family belongings were returned by some of the people who previously took them. Among those items was a charcoal triple portrait of Tommy and his brothers Gyuri and Oszi.
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