‘I think,’ Emil Stark said, ‘that if the Third Reich is given the weapons it needs it will survive its victory by perhaps five years – and very possibly not even that long. It’s doomed by its very nature; there’s absolutely no mechanism in the Nazi Party by which a successor to der Führer can be produced. Germany will fragment, become a collection of small, nasty, quarrelling states as it was before Bismark. My government is convinced of this, Mrs Thibodeaux.
