The Lady from Zagreb

by Philip Kerr

Poglavnik

mote

preternatural

hip roof

transom.

putto

Shtokavian

muezzin

Platon Jovanović

Then again, I just don’t like priests very much. Most of them are fanatics for a different, less worldly deity than Adolf Hitler but they are fanatics nonetheless.

caryatids,

Gordian knot

Jasenovac,

palisade

Émile Zola.

scrofulous

set about cleaning Christ on the cross with a long feather duster. He didn’t bat an eyelid. I expect it made a welcome change from a Roman spear in his side.

One day in the future the dead would speak from the past about what was being done here in the present.

way.

a way

‘There’s no doubt that some terrible things are being done in this war, on both sides.

Salome

On the whole it’s not wise to remind the devil that he’s the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.

For a moment I wondered what Goebbels’s several children would think about their father’s crimes when, one day, the Nazis were history.

Kesselring

Steengracht von Moyland.

Freisler

Max Sievers.’

Berlin West

‘The château of Wolfsberg

Baur au Lac

Allen Dulles.

babka,

bialy

Manfred Buch.

Jakob Werlin,

Schwiebus,

satrap’s

diadem

with

'by', not 'with'.

Fritz Todt

Mannerheim,

Alemannic

Leipzig’s Volki monument,

for

for a

La Bohème,

The Three Toledos

Prantl,

Darlan.’

‘Walter Nölle,’

Weber’s The Marksman.