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Inspektor Stahlecker,
NSDAP
Police Major Walther Wecke’s
German Consular Service.’
shame.
Indeed a rather troubling scene
Gert Jeschonnek
Der Stürmer
Herr Jeschonnek thinks that if they see that he subscribes to Der Stürmer, it will help him to drive a harder bargain.’ ‘Very shrewd of him,’ I said. ‘Does it work?’ ‘I guess so. You’d better ask him.’
Gohrmann, Schild, Jost, Dietz.
It’s always difficult getting away from a snapper. They never like to see trade walking out of the door.
X Bar, an illegal jazz club where the band were sandwiching American hits between the opening and closing chords of whatever innocuous and culturally acceptable Aryan number took their fancy; and they did it well enough not to trouble any Nazi’s conscience regarding so-called inferior music.
and some of them were war cripples selling cigarettes, wearing the yellow armlet with its three black spots that had persisted from Weimar days.
There were even pneumatic tubes through which small presents could be blown into the hand of a girl at the opposite end of the club.
Whoa weird
Henning Peter Manstein.
So I sat down on the stairs and removed my shoes and socks, putting them on again in reverse order, with the socks over the shoes. It’s an old trick, favoured by burglars, for muffling the sound of shoe-leather on a hard surface.
Handy tip for quiet walking
Hermann Goering,
Gerhard Von Greis
Horst Wessel,
The appearance on the same sheet of paper in Jeschonnek’s wastepaper basket of Haupthändler’s home telephone number with that of the Adlon Hotel, my own name and that of the bogus princess, demonstrated a possible chain of causation:
Indeed
Hans Lobbe,
Everyone who was watching was getting in some arm exercise, so I hung back, pausing in a shop
Ha:(
He likes this word quite a bit
Flea = $
Nail = cigarette
Kurt Mutschmann
Red Dieter,
Walther Funk?’
‘Sorry about that,’ said my attacker, ‘but when I saw you going for that sabre I decided to slow you down a bit.’
Well, that's an encouraging response
Wolf Rienacker.
enjoying my own inventiveness.
He's an easy liar
Inge Lorenz.
Döblin’s
‘Of course it’s a forbidden book,’ she said, ‘but you should read it, while it’s in circulation again.’ ‘I don’t understand,’ I said. ‘Oh, but haven’t you noticed? Banned writers are back in the bookshops. It’s because of the Olympiad. So that tourists won’t think things are quite as repressive here as has been made out. Of course, they’ll disappear again as soon as it’s all over but, if only because they are forbidden, you should read them.’
On forbidden books
the Party’s “Clear Women out of Industry” campaign. An ingenious way of solving Germany’s unemployment problem,
Fritz Thyssen,
Lisa Voegler,
The simple fact of the matter is that Germany is preparing for war, and so conventional economic policy is of little or no relevance.’
‘I’d better wear an extra pair of knickers, then,’ she said. ‘The man has hands like he thinks he should have been a midwife.’
!
Konrad Spiedel,
Kasper Tillessen.
‘Hans Jurgen Bock,
but I knew that in the Third Reich there were many worse things being done in the name of progress than the homogenizing of workers’ dwellings.
He’s as welcome here as a Jew’s prick up Goering’s arse.
Oh my
KPD
Dachau and Buchenwald.
Two men in Luftwaffe uniform followed Goering into the room. To my astonishment, I saw that he was carrying a lion cub in his arms. He kissed it on the head, pulled its ears and then dropped it on to the silk rug.
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Dashiell Hammett’s
‘Oh, but you should. I shall lend you a German edition of Red Harvest. You’ll enjoy it.
Suddenly everyone's giving him book suggestions. Awesome
Diels
I buried my head under the pillow and tried to ignore the area warden hammering on my door; but I knew that I would only have to account for my absence later on, and that failure to provide a verifiable explanation would result in a fine.
Interesting
