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A Judas. And diamonds for an anniversary and a birthday to come

Don’t ask for stories you don’t want to hear. This was pretty awful

And now should we be worried about the siblings and their half-Jewishness being reported by Egon??

“By the way, if you're feeling awkward, don't," he instructs her.
"Awkward?"
"That you're sitting in a room with two men, both of whom you've fucked. We've discussed that, too. There are no secrets between the children of Abraham, you see."

Yes awkward

“At the stove, she shoots Sigrid a stiff glare, but her anger does not completely hide a splinter of fear. Her son has come home from the war, alive, but she no longer recognizes him.”

“I will not be held accountable by your obsolete notions of 'propriety? Propriety died with the first man murdered by the criminals in power, Frau Schröder. The first time a wife received an urn full of her husband's ashes from the Gestapo."

"you must pardon me, Frau Schröder, if I'm not too impressed by your flights into the realm of proper behavior for a young lady."

“But if this is his family that the Fates have tumbled into her hands, then she must hold them tightly. They are a link to him. A conduit. And something else. Her power over them is her power over him. The invisible thread of synchronicity connecting them, like the seam that threads the darkness to the day.”

A pregnant woman with a yellow star must walk in the freezing rain because Jews are barred from public transport. Just don't look. A man is beaten by the police in front of his children. Don't look. The SS march a column of skeletons, in filthy striped rags, down the middle of the goddamned street. But don't look. You avert your eyes enough times, and finally you go blind. You don't actually see anything any longer.