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This part focused on Sredoje Lazukić. He flew with his father and elder brother from Novi Sad, leaving her mother behind, who soon became a victim of the a pogrom against the Serbian population. Sredoje's brother was shot in a German warplane attack, but he and his father established in the black market of Belgrad. Sredoje even starts to work for the German police and uses his power to make women succumb to him.

Zuerst scheint es, dass sich die Familie Kroner anfangs mit dem Besatzungsregime arrangiert. Die Firma bekommt einen ungarischen Ritter als Kommissar, den Vera umwirbt, um mit ihm aus Novi Sad zu fliehen. Dann aber wird der Bruder verhaftet und getötet, die Großmutter stirbt in der Gaskammer, der Vater wird schon im Sammellager erschossen. Nur Vera überlebt, schwer gezeichnet durch die Misshandlungen im Lagerbordell.

The story is focussing on the pupils of the German "Fräulein" Miss Drentvenšek: Vera Kroner, a well behaved Jewish middle class girl with a German mother from Slovenia, Sredoja Lazukić, a boy from a Serbian nationalist family and Milinko Božić, a Serbian boy with a poor single mother, but eager to advance by learning. I deeply enjoy Tišma's way of story telling.