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eBook Category: Science Fiction/Mystery/Crime
eBook Description: It's the end of WWII, and on the streets of Berlin the Russians are closing in on a young German boy and an old soldier. But the man and boy have more than their dead companions in common. They share a dark secret that no one else must know.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Crime Through Time, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman, 1997
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2005

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [174 KB], eReader (PDB) [26 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [12 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [12 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [74 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [83 KB], hiebook (KML) [35 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [37 KB], iSilo (PDB) [10 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [13 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [41 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [20 KB]
Words: 3730
Reading time: 10-14 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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I was just a boy then, twelve years old, but still I remember it. I remember the German SS soldier, a huge bear of a man, running straight down the Unter den Linden through the heart of Berlin, dragging behind him on a stretcher his dead companion.

When a bird is starving it is unable to fly. Did you know that? It will flutter and flop with no visible injury, but it will not be able to take the air. Some would say this described the Nazi Party during the final year of the Second World War. But on that day so many years ago, it was the SS soldier who reminded me of such a bird.

There was a sudden silence--the Russian guns had quieted momentarily--and then out of the hush came the sound of this SS man's boots clacking on brick and stone. I could see him running hard, gasping for breath.