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The Berlin Memorandum or, The Quiller Memorandum Quiller, #1 by Adam Hall, 1920-1995 Published: 1965 J J J J J I I I I I Table of Contents Introduction & Chapter 1 … Pol. Chapter 2 … The Hook. Chapter 3 … Snow. Chapter 4 … The Wall. Chapter 5 … Phoenix. Chapter 6 … Quota. Chapter 7 … Red Sector. Chapter 8 … Inga. Chapter 9 … The Kill. Chapter 10 … The Needle. Chapter 11 … Oktober. Chapter 12 … Narcosis. Chapter 13 … The Bridge. Chapter 14 … Libido. Chapter 15 … Blackout. Chapter 16 … Cipher. Chapter 17 … Ferret. Chapter 18 … Object 73. Chapter 19 … The Sepulchre. Chapter 20 … Bunkerkinder. Chapter 21 … Trap–Shoot. Chapter 22 … Corner. Chapter 23 … Signal Ends. J J J J J I I I I I Introduction The setting is the divided city of Berlin, some 15 years after the end of World War II. Quiller is an enigmatic (and unarmed) agent working in Berlin for an elusive intelligence agency. Besides the nature of his job, Quiller knows little about his employers, and he himself is something of a mystery. Quiller´s assignment is to penetrate a neo-Nazi organization called Phoenix, which has its secret headquarters in Berlin, and is run by a former SS officer named Heinrich Zossen, and Quiller knows him from the war. In an assignment that becomes a personal quest, Quiller wants to find Zossen and destroy him, though one agent has already died trying. Chapter 1 Pol. A couple of air-hostesses came in through the glass doors, crisp and pure- looking in Lufthansa uniform. They looked once at the group of pilots who stood at the soft-drinks bar then swung on their spiked heels to preen themselves in the mirrors. The pilots turned to watch them, all of them tall, all of them blond. Nobody spoke. Another girl came in and touched her reflected hair before she turned away and studied her shining fingertips at armslength, glancing up just once at the tall blond men, looking down again with her head tilted, admiring her spread fingers as if they were flowers. One of the young men grinned and looked among his friends to see who would join him in an approach towards the girls, but nobody moved. A light flashed rhythmically across and across the window, coming from the airport beacon. The two girls left the mirrors, glanced again at the pilots and then stood neatly with their feet together and their hands behind them. Everybody seemed to be waiting. The boy who had grinned to his friends seemed to venture a step towards the hostesses, but another blocked his foot and the boy shrugged, folding his arms. Into the silence was rising the sound of a jet airliner starting up outside. This was what they had been waiting for and they all turned towards the centre, looking upwards, listening, all of them smiling now. The rising sound of the aircraft was not yet very loud, so that I heard the door of the box being opened behind my chair; a wedge of light came against the wall and then went out. Clearly visible through the big window the dorsal lamp of the airliner began winking, and the sound of the jets levelled out to an even pitch. The pilots tensed and the hostesses took a few delicate eager steps towards the doors, with their bodies turned to face the group of boys. I was aware that someone had come into the box and was standing behind me. I did not turn my head. Then the pilots moved in a body towards the centre and the prettiest of the girls flung out her hands and called eagerly: “Who’s for the air? “ The tallest of the boys responded: “I am! ” His friends chorused to the first notes of the music: “We are! “ “Who’s for the sky? ” sang the girls, and they were into the number. Under cover of the music the man sat down in the chair next to mine, shifting it at an angle so that he could face me obliquely. The glow from the stage defined one side of his head and gleamed along the side-piece of his glasses. “Windsor,” he introduced himself. Who’s for a wide blue sky-high fling? We are! We’re on the wing! “I’m sorry to break into your evening.” The man spoke the kind of English that is heard only on the cold-war propaganda networks, the accent unplaceable but definitely there. “Don’t apologise,” I said. “This show had too good a press.” I had broken a rule, and didn’t care. I had come here because tomorrow I was going home and I wanted to take away a memory, however trivial, of the New Liberal Germany that people talked so much about. The Neukomodietheater was said to be the centre of fresh youthful gaiety ( Suddeutsche Zeitung ) where the new iteration was making its breakthrough to a kind of music that had not been heard before ( Der Spiegel ). No one had mentioned the corn. “What a pity you are disappointed,” murmured the man, on your last night in Berlin.” He glanced down at the stage and then moved his chair back quietly. “Perhaps I can interest you by way of conversation.” For a moment had thought he was leaving, but he had sat down again. His chair was now below one of the little shaded lamps on the wall of the box, so that his face was in shadow. I wondered who he was. “Perhaps, Mr. Quiller,” he said softly, leaning towards me, “you would care to move your chair closer, so that we can speak quietly.” He added: ” My name is Pol.” I did not move. “Apart from your name, Herr Pol, I don’t know anything about you. I think you are making a mistake. This box was reserved for me exclusively, number 7. Yours is possibly Number 1. The figures are sometimes confused.” The girls and boys were wheeling about the stage with heir arms out like wings, swooping and diving and cleverly missing each other in what the press called an aerial ballet of intricate patterns that bespelled the eye. Now the stage lights went dim and the dancers were seen to be wearing tiny electric lamps on their hands as they wove their way about each other. I was saddened. Even the bright new generation couldn’t make its breakthrough without putting on a number that unconsciously resembled an air-battle. Pol said gently: “I came to talk to you here because it is a good place. Better than a cafe or your hotel. I was not seen coming here, and if you would care to move your chair back we should be completely concealed, in this light.” I said: “You’re mistaking me for someone else. Don’t oblige me to call the usher and lodge a complaint.” He said: “Your attitude is understandable, so I won’t cavil.” I moved my chair back and sat closer to him. “All right,” I said. Windsor was the presently operating code-word, given as a name, when approaching a contact. The C-group had been in operation since the first of this month, giving us care , call and cavil . I would have cleared him provisionally on cafe alone, because he knew three things about me: my name was Quiller, my box number was 7, and this was my last night in Berlin. But I had thrown him call to get cavil simply in the hope that he wasn’t a contact at all, but someone who had wandered into the wrong box and used the word ‘care’ by chance. I didn’t want any more contacts, any more work. Six months in this field had left me sickened and I wanted England more than I had ever wanted her before. It was no go. This was a contact. Uncivilly I told him to explain how he had known which box I was in. He said: “I followed you here.” “You didn’t.” I knew when I was being followed. “Correct,” he said. So it had been a test for me: he had wanted to know if people could follow me about without my realising it. I resented the trap. “We knew that you had reserved this box,” he said. I looked down at the firefly dance on the stage. The music played softly. It took me three or four seconds. I had booked for the show by phone, asking for a box because I didn’t want to sit with anyone: half my six months had been spent sitting wedged between people at the trial and I felt contaminated. This reservation had been made in the name of Schultze, so he could have gone right through the list at the box-office without finding me. There was only one way. Between us we set three quick traps and sprung them: “So you’ve got access to the box-office,” I said. “Yes.” “No go. I used the name Schultze.” “We knew that.” “By tapping my phone.” He said: ” Correct.” My leading trap had been set to find out if he were still testing me. He was. Otherwise he would have said, ‘No, we didn’t go to the box-office.’ Instead, he had trapped me back at once with the one word— yes —to see if I’d spring it. I did: with Schultze . Even then he wouldn’t let me off the hook, because I had only gone half-way, telling him that I knew he would have drawn blank at the box-office.
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    1 Holocaust Massale moord op de Europese Joden Door Dr. Dieter Pohl Uitgeverij Everbum Laren N.H. 2005 STICHTING DE GIHONBRON MIDDELBURG 2019 2 Inhoud Inleiding 1. Het begin 2. De vervolging van de Joden uit Midden-Europa tot 1939 3. Onderdrukking en isolatie in Europa tot aan de zomer van 1941 4. Vernietigingsoorlog in de Sovjet-Unie, 1941 5. De weg naar de Endliisung, 1941-19421 6. Massamoord in Polen 7. De vernietiging van de Joodse gemeenschappen in de Sovjet-Unie, 1942-1943 8. Het Duitse Rijk en het Protectoraat 9. Vernietiging in Europa, 1942-1944 10. Hongarije — een geval apart 11. Joden vervolgd 12. De daders 13. Collaboratie in het buitenland 14. De toeschouwers 15. De betekenis van de concentratiekampen na 16. Dodenmarsen 17. Gevolgen 18. Tot slot Chronologie holocaust Literatuursuggesties Over de auteur Voor Theresia Oorspronkelijke titel Holocaust. Die Ursachen — das Geschehen — die Folgen Pohl, Holocaust © Verlag Herder Freiburg im Breisgau, 2e druk 2001 Nederlandse vertaling © 2005 Uitgeverij Verbum en Erika Venis Ontwerp omslag: www.quasigrafisch.nl Foto omslag: © AKG-Images GmbH, Berlijn Vormgeving: Mirjam Roest, Quasi Grafische Producties Druk: Koninklijke Wöhrmann, Zutphen Meer informatie over Verbum Holocaust Bibliotheek: www.verbum.nl Deze diep-ontzagwekkende publicatie wordt mede gepubliceerd door de Stichting Gihonbron vanwege de ontkenning van de Holocaust die zich allerwege openbaart. Deze houdt niet alleen een ontkenning in maar indirect een instemming. www.theologienet.nl 3 Inleiding De geschiedenis van de massamoord op de Europese Joden is geen gemakkelijk onderwerp. Geen historicus zal durven beweren dat hij de menselijke aspecten van deze gebeurtenissen kan bevatten.
  • Hans Krueger and the Murder of the Jews in the Stanislawow Region (Galicia)

    Hans Krueger and the Murder of the Jews in the Stanislawow Region (Galicia)

    Hans Krueger and the Murder of the Jews in the Stanislawow Region (Galicia) Dieter Pohl The murder of the Jews in the occupied areas of Poland and the Soviet Union is currently being researched with new and intensified interest. Though previously investigated mainly by Polish, Israeli, and American scholars, now historians in Germany are also probing facets of this darkest chapter in German history. The general approach is that pioneered by Hilberg, Browning, and Scheffler, which concentrates on the ways in which these crimes were organized and carried out. This paper follows a similar line of inquiry. In examining the concrete implementation of the "Final Solution" in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union, a pivotal question concerns the role of the occupation framework and of the individual perpetrator. Although Christopher Browning blazed a trail for such studies, analyzing the policies pursued by individual authorities and the murder operations carried out by one police battalion, our knowledge of these crucial factors still remains inadequate. Earlier research by Helmut Krausnick and Hans-Heinrich Wilhelm had already pointed in this direction, but they explored the "Final Solution" in the context of very large spatial areas and were able only tangentially to investigate the role played by the individual perpetrator1. This paper seeks to inquire into these questions in light of a specific example: the mass-murder operations carried out by the Border Police Headquarters (Grenzpolizei-Kommissariat) in Stanislawow (today called Irano-Frankovsk) in southeastern Galicia under SS-Captain Hans Krueger from 1941 to 1943. Over the span of sixteen months, this small police 1 See Christopher R.