Status Updates From Life and Fate

The Russians have encircled the German army inside Stalingrad.

The physicist is having his staffing recommendations turned down and now he’s being called into question, possibly because he’s Jewish.

They’ve built the gas chambers and they’re racing to kill as many people as possible. The soldier that had been working behind enemy lines is now informing on the soldiers holed up in the city, because they’ve been questioning the party.

Big day of reading because of the train ride in. The team holed up in the building in the middle of Stalingrad got bombed out right after sending the woman telephonist to a different station. The physicist from the last book returns to Moscow to test his new theory. The Germans distribute the order to liquidate the camps.