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And now they were talking about increased taxes? To help the common
people here? Again, no. It was to grease the wheels of the war machine
that the money was needed. Isabelle shuddered with revulsion.

More revolting than higher taxes for lesser purposes, the talk was that
universal conscription was about to be expanded. She looked at her two
young sons, one held with each hand, and vowed she would never permit
them to be dragged from her home to be turned into cannon fodder in a
stupid and needless war.

Isabelle's voice joined that of the thronging masses. "Peace, now . . .
peace, now . . . PEACE, NOW!"

***
Berlin, Germany, 14 November 2004

Word had spread; G├╝nter had ensured it would spread.

As the chancellor entered the Bundestag, Germany's upper legislative
body, he saw a sea of mostly neutral faces, sprinkled with those more
hostile or, in a very few cases, even eager. He wasn't sure which group he
feared moreтАФthe left that was going to raise a cry for his ouster, or the
new right that might raise a cry for him to assume a title he loathed,
"F├╝hrer."

No matter. He could only persevere in his course and hope that the great
mass of legislators would see things as he did. To help them see he knew
he must show them.

As he took his seat the chancellor made a hand motion. Immediately the
lights dimmed. Almost immediately thereafter a movie screen unrolled
from the high ceiling.

For the past four days a specially selected team of newsmen and women
had been assembling a documentary using mostly American but also
some few other sources. It had been America, however, that sensed a
need for Germany to continue as an ally, that had been most willing and

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able to provide the team of German journalists with everything needed to
complete their mission.

Nothing had been censored, no holds had been barred. The German
legislature was about to be kicked full in their collective teeth with the
horror about to descend upon their country.