Given the hell Hitler unleashed upon the world, it might have been better if she’d seen him for what he was: a political criminal. Everyone knows that now, of course; Hitler’s name is a byword for mass murder, but back in 1939 it was still shocking to realize that the head of the government was capable of such barbarous behaviour. Until then all I’d heard had been rumours that he’d been in charge of a Freikorps death squad in Munich, but these were nothing more than that: rumours. Bormann’s photograph was the first time I’d seen actual evidence and when you’re a cop, that’s really all that’s
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