The Auslander (2009)
“CHAPTER 31 July 22, 1943 .
Peter slept badly that night. The incident with the boy on the Reiters’ doorstep had unsettled him. He was feeling particularly fragile the next morning and ill-equipped to deal with the envelope that arrived at the Kaltenbachs’. It was postmarked General Government and addressed to Professor Kaltenbach. He did not usually look at his post at the breakfast table, but this was too unusual to ignore. As he read it he seemed to shrink. His bustling self-importance draine...d away like bathwater down a plughole.
‘Girls,’ he announced, ‘I want you to go to your rooms.’ They protested. ‘Go. Take your breakfast with you.’ Peter got up to go with them. Kaltenbach grabbed his sleeve and tugged him roughly back in his seat. ‘You will stay here.’ When there was just Peter and Liese left in the room, Kaltenbach began to speak in a low and steady voice.
‘I have just received a letter from SS-Hauptsturmführer Fleischer, of the Race and Settlement Main Office in the General Government.MoreLess
Peter slept badly that night. The incident with the boy on the Reiters’ doorstep had unsettled him. He was feeling particularly fragile the next morning and ill-equipped to deal with the envelope that arrived at the Kaltenbachs’. It was postmarked General Government and addressed to Professor Kaltenbach. He did not usually look at his post at the breakfast table, but this was too unusual to ignore. As he read it he seemed to shrink. His bustling self-importance draine...d away like bathwater down a plughole.
‘Girls,’ he announced, ‘I want you to go to your rooms.’ They protested. ‘Go. Take your breakfast with you.’ Peter got up to go with them. Kaltenbach grabbed his sleeve and tugged him roughly back in his seat. ‘You will stay here.’ When there was just Peter and Liese left in the room, Kaltenbach began to speak in a low and steady voice.
‘I have just received a letter from SS-Hauptsturmführer Fleischer, of the Race and Settlement Main Office in the General Government.MoreLess
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