Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ya kasance mai ban tsoro ta hanyar bam din Hamburg na 1943
, wanda ya fuskanta yayin da yake ziyartar kawunsa. A zarafi na farko da ya samu, kawunsa ya sa ya shiga jirgin ƙasa zuwa Munich. A can, Ende ya halarci makarantar Maximillians Gymnasium a Munich har sai an rufe makarantu yayin da hare-haren sama suka tsananta kuma aka kwashe dalibai. Ende ya koma Garmisch-Partenkirchen, inda aka sanya shi a gidan kwana, Haus Kramerhof kuma daga baya a Haus Roseneck. A can ne sha'awarsa ga waka ta farka. Kazalika da rubuta waƙoƙin kansa, ya fara nazarin ƙungiyoyi da salon waƙoƙi. An haramta yawancin shayari na zamani a lokacin, don haka ya yi nazarin mawallafin Romantic Novalis, wanda "Hymns to the Night" ya bar babban tasiri a kansa.