Parts Unknown. Zirk van den Berg
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job you’re supposed to do here. You must understand that this makes an already difficult position even more so. Forgive the doctor and me if we take our refuge in humour.’
Siegfried didn’t know what to say. He had never had much opportunity to develop a defence against kindness.
‘If he could do something that wasn’t too demanding physically …’ said Doktor Salzwedel. ‘He could be a camp guard.’
Siegfried remembered the emaciated, broken women he saw at Swakopmund, creatures from the underworld stumbling through the murk. ‘Please don’t do that, sir. Send me to a combat unit. If I don’t shape up, they can send me back and then you can do with me what you want.’
Oberst Adendorff tapped his fingertips against his lips.
‘I know some men in Leutnant Berghammer’s platoon,’ Siegfried ventured. It wasn’t exactly true, he knew only a name or two from Manfred Eberhardt’s letters to Traudl, but perhaps if he went to the same unit, it would help to prove that he was his rival’s equal. Perhaps he could find out how the man had died, and at least make sure that he had something to tell Traudl. Perhaps Manfred Eberhardt wasn’t the hero everyone at home assumed him to be, maybe it was just typhus that had killed him, a death without any particular honour. Or what if he had done something stupid or cowardly, some shameful deed that brought about his death, to the relief of his comrades?
Oberst Adendorff nodded slowly. ‘That unit is a bit under strength, they’ve had losses.’
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