Episode Three

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Tell me doctor, babies can't be
all that different. So how is it

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that infancy leads to such different results
in adults. How is it that some

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people have mind problems and end up
in straight jackets while others appear to be

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normal. Think of this. Say
it all. Two boys born the same

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day at the same time in the
same hospital. They also share a common

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flaw passed on to them by their
grandfathers, who were both keen anglers.

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The grandfathers leave their grandsons their angling
thigh boots. Each grandfather's right boot has

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a hole in it, and when
they grow up, one grandson becomes a

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keen angler and where's the boot?
Thus he eventually suffers rheumatism in his leg.

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The other boy loves archaeology and spends
his life in the dry desert,

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and though he wears the boot,
he suffers no ill effect to his leg.

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So common flaws in infancy don't necessarily
lead to similar problems later in life.

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Obviously, both grandfathers would Jews,
giving their grandstands defective goods. The

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men suffering rheumatism was also Jewish,
being foolish enough to wear the faulty boot.

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The other had a solid aryan parent
who knew better. When later,

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in conversation with Bernheim, I recounted
this episode, his silence and apathy confirmed

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my belief in his own Nazis sympathies. Lady told me that I was on

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a dangerous ground when I said that
Hitler's profound antisemitic rhetoric was a psychotic trait.

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The following day, my special patient
kept his appointment as arranged to receive

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my report. Take a seat,
hi, doc, this thing is boiling

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over. We need to know what
you know will depend on I'll prepare to

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summarize patient's profile. It's here,
but I'll give you the extended version verbally

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as an added introduction to the subject. Good you keep this up. I'm

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going to take you out to dinner. Might be a bit inappropriate considering our

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man is now aged forty eight.
He had a trouble and abused childhood,

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as a result of which he became
fixated on his mother and hated his father.

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Yeah, yeah, I've heard this
record before. His childhood was solidarity

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without friends. He was and remained
emotionally flat. He's also very immersed in

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ancient mythology, astrology, metaphysics,
and so on, and on and not

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he sees his instructions coming from above. You daresay he has a large ego,

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colossal. It gives him feelings of
immen's power and righteousness, of being

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totally invincible. It's megalomania. He's
grandiose in his effect while being emotionally cold

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in his relationships. He's prone to
tantrums and violent outbursts of temper that are

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in fact all for show and to
intimidate his observers, especially those in opposition,

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while he remains calm, a loot
and in controlled with him, he's

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an actor. He's an actor,
world class like Chaplain, no doubt.

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He carefully rehearses every speech down to
his physical movements, pauses, and it's

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an ever enlarging audience. Exactly how
crazy is he? Very? But he's

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not actually mad in the common perceived
definition. He's a calculating, charismatic and

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skilled politician and leader. In other
words, a completely normal political fanatic.

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When the Americans and the Bridge really
get into this, there are plans of

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foot. Do you think Old Adolph
ever questions himself if he decides a thing

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as a certain way, would he
ever reconsider when anger? The man is

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more likely to react out of the
childish fury than as a season military strategist,

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spitefully without much forethought, to the
point of overruling his generals absolutely,

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and then he blamed them for the
aftermath of his own bad decisions. In

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his estimation, he is infallible.
He can never be wrong. He's a

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malignant narcissist. It's a very deranged
attitude, one he's had almost from the

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cradle, and it will certainly carry
to his grairy. Hopefully we can arrange

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that. I'm in no position to
address that. Commons malignant narcissism makes him

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totally devoid of conscience. Yeah,
it's why he'll never be deterred by outcry

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from other governments. And how can
he be when he knows that he's infallible

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of the messiahs? Was he born
at Christmas? Jeez? What do you

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think he'll do next? He certainly
has huge plans for German expansion. Since

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nineteen thirty five, he has ignored
and overridden the constraint of formal treatise to

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satisfy them going forward. Firstly,
he'll enacts Austria and then said about claiming

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the German speaking Sudan Lant of Czechoslovakia. You believe so, of course,

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And by the same token, he
will charm many foreign leaders opposing them with

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this soft and friendly mask. And
he is persuasive, apparently logical arguments,

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honey tongue, smooth, the iron
fists and a velvet glove. Precisely,

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it's all part of his strive for
living space. The Laban's bound into Central

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and Eastern Europe for the greater Germanic
reis the rise and expansion of his master

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race policy. All opposition by race
is deemed to be inferior to the Arians,

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will be swept aside, driven before
him and annihilated. Only to transmit

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your opinions to my superiors. Doc, And what are they planning to do

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about him? Tell you more next
time a week from now. Tell me

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one more him before you go.
What your name? Frank? An Italian

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American named Frank go on, Yes, Franky Chow. Doc. Tildy and

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I were having dinner at a favorite
bistro. I raised my glass to toast

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her birthday, but I had another
proposal on mine. Happy birthday, Darling.

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Now for a few months, I'm
like yet closer to you. Oh,

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you will always be close to me. You know that I'd love to

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be even more so than marry me. Don't joke, who says I am

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off? Of course I'd love to, But it's just that I feel too

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inadequate to be a good wife to
you. I've nearly always lived at home,

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but I hardly know how to cook
and keep house. I don't care

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about any of that. We learn
to cook together. I have the four

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gun sense. Did the orchestra?
Really don't want to change your situation,

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do you? It's not that I
love you with all my heart. This

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is heart why I need my space
to practice and rehearse and all my paraphernalia.

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If we live together, I'll clutter
your apartment terribly. Do you realize

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what you just said? But paraphernalia, it's literary, the stuff the bride

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brings with her upon marriage. Perhaps
that's an omen a, good one,

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I hope. Huh. Maybe,
So you'll think about our future together,

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won't you? Nothing but make me
happier, my doddling man, Just give

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me a little more time until I
get to be another year older than you

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again. Not long after my most
recent visit from Frank and all that is

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a familiar man on the metro platform. It couldn't be, but sure as

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hell it was. It was alber
stormfur Kruntz, older like me, still

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retaining the same hard phase with aggression
spring loaded in what the unsuspecting would have

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mistaken for a friendly smile. But
the overall menacing image was perhaps softened by

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the fact that the man was out
of his storm of Atyland, his storm

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trooper's uniform in its place. He
wore a fawn raincoat over a light brown

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double breasted suit in a the lower
effect rabbit skin trophy. He saw me

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and approached. I moved along the
platform madge to a more empty spot that

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was reasonably out of earshot from others
on the platform. Krunz held out out

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an ottimit cigarette got the light.
I lit his cigarette, and a ridiculous

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fleeting thought of burning the man's face
with a match flashed through my mind.

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But I threw the match down onto
the line, and a frightened little mouse

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carried away between the shining rails and
croons. Inhaled deeply on a cigarette and

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blew out the smoke with a convincing
smile letching out on his face. He

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directed the smile round at me in
a glinting side glance. I know you

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have a new friend. Croons couldn't
resist letting out a devilish gurgle of delight.

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I would have liked to have pushed
the man off the platform onto they

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electrified rails, but that would have
been of no benefit to anyone, just

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another patient. I know understand.
If you do, why are we having

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this come sation here? You will
tell me everything, all your interactions with

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your new friend, and tell my
mind and the shears the same information.

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Why should I do that? Because
if you don't, if you will know

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as well, and then you will
no longer be his dog. You will

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be one more insect, a cash
under his boot. You put yourself at

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rosk as well. Now our faiths
are entwined. You will provide me information.

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I will tell my superiors I have
a man in with our enemies.

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I will be rewarded. Everyone wins. That's an optimistic interpretation of the situation.

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If we speak again, two stations
along tomorrow, same time, I

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shall be needing another the light of
my cigarette. Throwing his glowing cigarette onto

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the track, Crumbs turned and made
for the exit, and the little mouse

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came scuttling back along the track,
defying death from a live rails as a

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blast of wind and light sliding out
of the tunnel signal that a train was

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fast approaching the platform. One day
I was summoned by Bernheim, who said

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the two of us had been invited
to stay with the fewer at his Bavarian

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retreat for the weekend. Give him
my last interaction with Crumbs. I was

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half convinced that he had either been
found out or folded, and I was

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being summoned to my own execution.
Despite my protestations of inconvenience, he assured

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me that the invitation amounted to a
summons and should not be declined. It

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was quite apparent that Bernheim was sympathetic
to the Nazi party doctrine and names,

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whereas I was totally opposed to him
and to the anti Semitic purge that were

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by then escalating in Germany. The
prospect of spending a weekend with the Nazi

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hierarchy appalled me, as on the
following afternoon, we flew from Perlin to

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Hitler's Mountain retreat, the burghof Welcome. Welcome to the berghof my little mountain

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retreat. This is well, I'm
truly at home. Isn't it beautiful?

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Come let me show you around.
It's mainly my own creation. In all

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while burn I'm enthused over the ostentation
is a race of classical art interspersed with

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some of Hitler's own watercolors. I
held my guess. I have extensive libraries

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full of every known work of science
and literature. As I haven't a quiet

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remark of Bernheim that I doubted he
had included Freud's publications. Hitler must have

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overheard. What's that you said?
I said, nothing of importance. Mine

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furor all this from the success of
my book, Mine comp says, you

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cannot imagine now Germany riots as again
and be able to become masters of the

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universe. I transformed the collection of
old farm buildings into what you now behold.

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Must truly be impressed. Come here, you see my telephone exchange system.

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From here I can control the whole
of Germany, commanding my generals and

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politicians from afar. As Bernheim and
I exchanged another, I to remark,

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I'll lead around it once again verty
four people. After privilege of seymourdis in

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the afternoon, Bernheim said he needed
a quiet time along with Hitler, so

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I spent a while out on the
terrace, admiring the mountain views all round,

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and I'll cross the narrow valley that
was accessed by a nearby footbridge,

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where a manned guard post at either
end. I suspected Bernheim was in process

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of administering some of his special injection
medication and listening to Hitler's coercive tactics to

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get me into joining the party,
of which I was sure himself was a

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member, with his party badge pin
secretly beneath his lapel, all while sipping

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tea and munching pastries. I was
not known until some days later just much

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I had been the betrayed victim of
their discussion. Zee Kyle, I tossed

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you all slept well after ensuing rich
Minister's goby stirring movie last night. This

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afternoon, I should take my usual
walk across the valley to the tea house.

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Those who wish to join me may
well lease a terrace at two o'clock.

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Here, Che minister Spier, I
know you cannot join us, as

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you are leaving to prepare my next
light and sound rally extravaganza. Reich Sierra

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Himler. I'm sure you will be
enthralled to see into the housome house of

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Valhalla at that time. As we
were walked along the wooden path towards the

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tea house in the afternoon sunshine and
Outiste and Holst at a clear area with

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a bench, the view from which
was directly across to the Berghoff and the

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guards bringing up the rear of the
party, huslamy on words and rejoined the

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group. They obviously did not like
this spot, a very suitable target for

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an enemy sniper rifle. When next
I went to visit Tilde at the man

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leaving apartment, I was told by
the concierge that they had been taken by

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Gestapo agents three nights earlier and all
the belongings had been cleared out. The

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following day, Tilde and her whole
family were gone. The Hitler File is

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a production of Voyage Media. The
series is produced by nat Mondel, Robert

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Midas and Dan Benemore, directed and
produced by Dan Benemore, written by Desmond

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Fosbery, based on the novel The
Drameric File by Brandon Rolfe, starring Peter

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Stormare as Doctor Drmieric and Dennis O'Hare
as Adolf Hitler. Additional cast credits available

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