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Rolf Togotzes,
Marlene Sahm.
Vera, or Eva,
pouffe.
Teichmüller.
Forschungsamt
sledge.
Sledge = John
But there are better places to kiss a pretty girl than a disused garage in Kreuzberg.
‘If you ask me, it’s putting the cart before the horse. I mean, who needs these gigantic highways? It’s not as if there’s anything wrong with the roads we have now. It’s not as if there are that many cars in Germany.’
Hm. Is this more war prep?
Now why else would that be but to move an army about?’
Ah hah.
‘Peter Welser,’
skat
polyp
Polyp = cop
Red’s
a bit of plum.’
A bit of plum = a chick / perhaps prostitute
cement
Cement = prison (term)
Red Dieter
doss-house
take some papers.
bells.’
Bells = expensive jewels (diamonds?)
claw
Claw =steal
lighter
Lighter = gun
The worst of it is that now that I’ve decided to go straight it seems like the rest of the country has decided to go bent. I go to prison and when I come out I find that the stupid bastards have elected a bunch of gangsters. How do you like that?’
friend, I voted for the Social Democrats.
Watching the tall, graceful negro accelerate down the track, making a mockery of crackpot theories of Aryan superiority, I thought that Owens was nothing so much as a Man, for whom other men were simply a painful embarrassment. To run like that was the meaning of the earth, and if ever there was a master-race it was certainly not going to exclude someone like Jesse Owens.
Whoa the narrator gets suddenly ethically philosophical
kippering
Joe Louis
Kriminalinspektor Hingsen,’
Wachmeister Wentz.’
it. I would also have told her that I was in love with her.
‘but I have a passion for detective stories.
Second character to say this
Obergruppenführer Heydrich.’
Standartenführer Sohst of Alarm Command.’
‘A KZ isn’t so bad if you’re a Kozi,’ chuckled Sohst. ‘In comparison with the Jews and the queers.
Willy Krause,
Sturmann
Dachau is situated some fifteen kilometres north-west of Munich. Someone on the train told me that it was the Reich’s first KZ. This seemed to me to be entirely appropriate, given Munich’s reputation as the birthplace of National Socialism.
were unfortunate enough to be Jewish. The Jewish population in Dachau was never large, but in all respects Jews were the worst off. Except maybe the questionable means of attaining freedom. In an Aryan hut the death rate was one per night; in a Jewish hut it was nearer seven or eight.
Survival was through the vicarious suffering of others: you were safe for a while when it was another man who was being beaten or lynched; for a few days you might eat the ration of the man in the next cot after he had expired in his sleep.
Ack
Mendelssohn,
There were a few children in Dachau, born to women imprisoned there. Some of them had never known any other life than the camp. They played freely in the compound, tolerated by all the guards, and even liked by some, and they could go almost anywhere, with the exception of the hospital barrack.
True?
Winter Relief
and sign a promise that I wouldn’t talk about what had happened, and that I wouldn’t wear mourning. Can you imagine that, Bernie? I couldn’t even wear black for my own husband. It was the only way I could get a pension.’
