Prague Fatale

Returning to Berlin from Prague with Reinhard Heydrich, the narrator, an SD officer, felt a sense of relief and anticipation. He looked forward to a relaxing evening, unconcerned about his minor theft from Heydrich. The narrator contrasts his own ...

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It was a fine warm day when, together with SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, the Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia, I arrived back from Prague at Berlin's Anhalter Station. We were both wearing SD uniform but, unlike the General, I was a man with a spring in my step, a tune in my head, and a smile in my heart. I was glad to be home in the city of my birth.

I was looking forward to a quiet evening with a good bottle of Mackenstedter and some Kemals I had liberated from Heydrich's personal supply at his office in Hradschin Castle. But I wasn't in the least worried he might discover this petty theft. I wasn't worried about anything very much. I was everything that Heydrich was not. I was alive...

...It's difficult to say what happened to Heydrich's soul, assuming he ever had one. I expect Dante Alighieri could have pointed me in the approximate direction if ever I felt inclined to go and search for it, somewhere in the Underworld. On the other hand I've a pretty good idea of what happened to his body.


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