Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque — Read

One idea had become rooted in Georg Rahe's mind. He would see his past once again, eye to eye. He contrived to come by a foreigner's passport and so to cross over the frontier. He travelled on through towns and villages, he waited about on big and little railway stations, and by nightfall is at last there where he wishes to be.

Without delay he sets off down the street, through the town, and beyond it toward the heights.