Nazi Magician: Inventor by Ward Wagher

Author:Ward Wagher [Wagher, Ward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-21T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

November 29, 1939

By driving to work instead of taking the bus, Dieter could leave home later and still arrive at the laboratory at a proper time. He was still amazed at his good fortune. Given the current German practice of minding one’s own business, nothing was said in the boarding house. But, he was sure there was considerable curiosity.

The only potential blight on the morning was that Jette pointedly took the bus, rather than riding with him. While Dieter tried to tell himself that it didn’t matter, he did worry about the girl traveling by herself. Oh, the bus itself was a safe conveyance for the employees of the lab, he wondered how many of the other employees knew that she was a Jewess.

Jette was a critical part of an important project for the Reich, and Ignatz carefully protected her. But after her comments about the way Rolf looked at her, Dieter began studying the SS man’s attitude and facial expressions when he was around her. He did not want to admit it, but he was increasingly convinced she was correct. Rolf found the girl distasteful. Dieter resolved to pay closer attention.

Dieter found it interesting to drive through the city and into the countryside to the SS base was interesting. There was not a lot of traffic this early as he made his way to the lab. He didn’t have to worry so much about the other automobiles; however, the horse-drawn wagons presented a challenge. The drovers always acted as though they were the only ones on the road – probably from that ancient assumption that the only things that were significantly faster were single men on horseback. So the wagons were apt to move in any direction regardless of what else was on the street. And to be honest, the little, bug-shaped automobile he drove seemed to present no threat to anyone.

Jette was already at her desk when Dieter arrived, and she pointedly did not look up as he walked into the lab. He tried to remind himself of the trauma of the rape by the Gestapo agents, not to mention seeing her parents carted off by the SS. Yet, it seemed like her mood swings were unpredictable, and he was sometimes at a loss for what to say to her. It seemed almost anything could set her off.

He shrugged it off and set the paper bag containing his two small loaves of bread on the bench and then went to retrieve that first coffee of the morning. Thankfully Karl did not come into the lab this morning. The highs and lows of the previous day made it difficult for him to be civil, despite the excitement of having his own automobile to drive.

At the workbench, he sipped his coffee and studied the apparatus and tried to imagine how the thing should work. His previous inventions had worked the first time he made the connections and applied power. This one was stubborn, and he could not visualize the end result.

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