“May I proffer an observation?” says Rudy von Hacklheber. “But of course, Herr Doktor Professor. As long as it is not a state secret, of course.” “In the old days—the early days—when no one knew what the Gestapo was, and no one was afraid of it, this four in the morning business was clever. A fine way to exploit man’s primal fear of the darkness. But now it is 1942, almost 1943, and everyone is afraid of the Gestapo. Everyone. More than they are of the dark. So, why don’t you work during the daytime? You are stuck in a rut.”
