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I just had the notion, maybe prompted by the reviews of In and Out of the Reich that went up today, of maybe going back to that setting in the wake of the collapse of the Nazi regime.
All I have so far is an opening paragraph:
The most remarkable thing about the Reich’s collapse is perhaps it’s swiftness. It’s hard to believe but only six months separate the first underground labor movement strikes in Danzig and X from the Siegallee Protests and the Volkshalle Vigil.
And the idea the story would center on Narrator and Therese meeting various Europeans (and non-Europeans) trying to get by in the post-Nazi Reich.
Some possible subjects for interviews/encounters
A leader of said underground labor movement.
A priest from the underground Catholic Church.
A German resident expelled from one of the now-independent western nations (Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, whatnot).
A Gauleiter who went over to the provisional government (probably Sibylle's father so she can show up again).
A homicide detective inHitlerstadt Berlin.
A State Department diplomat based in a consulate somewhere in the East.
And an epilogue with Narrator and Therese watching the sun rise at the lake of the village she was born in.
But I'm still stuck on how to bring the Reich down without just goingUSSR Reich Moscow Berlin General Secretary Fuhrer. Any ideas on what could happen in those six months to kick down the whole rotten thing?
All I have so far is an opening paragraph:
The most remarkable thing about the Reich’s collapse is perhaps it’s swiftness. It’s hard to believe but only six months separate the first underground labor movement strikes in Danzig and X from the Siegallee Protests and the Volkshalle Vigil.
And the idea the story would center on Narrator and Therese meeting various Europeans (and non-Europeans) trying to get by in the post-Nazi Reich.
Some possible subjects for interviews/encounters
A leader of said underground labor movement.
A priest from the underground Catholic Church.
A German resident expelled from one of the now-independent western nations (Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, whatnot).
A Gauleiter who went over to the provisional government (probably Sibylle's father so she can show up again).
A homicide detective in
A State Department diplomat based in a consulate somewhere in the East.
And an epilogue with Narrator and Therese watching the sun rise at the lake of the village she was born in.
But I'm still stuck on how to bring the Reich down without just going