"John Ringo - The Legacy of the Aldenata 7 - Watch On The Rhine" - читать интересную книгу автора (Ringo John)

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when will the Gestapo, under whatever name they chose to go by, realize
that those coats mark them for what they are as clearly as my SigrunenтАФ
the twin lightning boltsтАФused to mark me.

The objects of the patron's attention walked from table to table, from
customer to customer. The Wirt, the owner and manager of the
establishment, looked discreetly at the elderly man, dimly lit in a corner.
Shall I tell them?

The patron shrugged. Macht nichts. "Matters not." You know what they
are as well as I do. If they want me they will find me.

Nodding his understanding the Wirt called to the two. "If you are looking
for Herr Brasche, that's him over there in the corner."

The patron, Brasche, watched with interest as the two men approached.
When they had reached his table, he raised his beer in salute. "And what
can I do for the BND today, gentlemen?"

"Hans Brasche?" one of them asked, flashing an identification.

"That would be me," Hans answered.

"You must come with us."

Brasche smiled. If he was afraid, neither of the men who had accosted
him, nor any of the other patrons, would have known it. He had never
been a man, or a boy, to show much fear.

***

Times were hard and getting worse. The calendar on the wall said 1930.
As the boy entered the bare cupboarded kitchen, the expression on the
mother's face fairly shrieked "fear."

"Your father wants you, Hansi."



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The boy, he could not have been more than ten, suppressed a shudder.
This was always bad news. He steeled his soul, raised his ten-year-old