Hitler, My Neighbor by Edgar Feuchtwanger

Author:Edgar Feuchtwanger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2017-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

We’re in Funk’s apartment. He’s reading out snatches from the newspaper: “Ernst Röhm was mounting a coup against Hitler.” “He wanted to hand power to the SA, who would have plundered Germany.” “It would have been chaos.” “Revolution.” “A bloodbath.”

Funk knows everything that’s happened. He paces up and down the room, almost jumping. He’s very worked up, gabbling to Rosie.

“Apparently Hitler caught Ernst Röhm in bed with another man in a lakeside hotel. It must have been a setup.”

“I thought he was a Nazi and very close to Hitler,” Rosie says. “I don’t understand anything anymore.”

“Röhm wanted to take things much further than Hitler. He was brutal. The way the Nazis killed him was no less savage. They’re killing each other for power. Ernst Röhm was shot dead, along with all his companions. He was given the choice between suicide and execution. He didn’t have the courage to commit suicide.”

I don’t know what I’d choose if I were asked. We pass Röhm’s house on our way to the park every day. It looks dead; the garden’s strewn with branches and leaves that fell in the storm. It’s like a ghost house. Through the windows you can make out large rooms that look a little emptier with each passing day. The life has drained out of the place.

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