Len Deighton - XPD

[1] ‘No one knows it exists,’ said Stein. [1] ‘It was taken to the Kaiseroda mine?’ said Stuart. ‘This is what makes it so interesting,’ said Max Breslow. ‘Our film, I mean,’ he added hurriedly. ‘Yes, of course, the film,’ said Stuart. ‘You mean you have access to other material like this?’ Stein nodded and rummaged around the wrappers in the almost empty box of chocolate-coated cherries until he found one. He chewed into it and smiled as he saw Boyd Stuart’s look of consternation. ‘I’m afraid he’s quite right, Mr Stuart,’ said Max Breslow. ‘For better or for worse, reputations are going to be turned upside down.’ ‘Hitler and Churchill, you mean?’ Stuart asked. ‘Drink your coffee and have one of those delicious chocolates,’ Max Breslow told Stuart. ‘We have done enough for one night.’ Stuart had a feeling that there were no chocolates left, and that Max Breslow already knew that. The documents were an interesting addition to the available material. The National Archives in Washington DC have Morell’s records filed under reference NA Microcopy T 253 but there is nothing about Adolf Hitler. The Bundesarchiv at Koblenz and at Freiburg have virtually nothing.

[2]Assignment to Catastrophe, Vol. 2, The Fall of France, page 159 (Heinemann, London, 1954).

[3]Spears, Vol. 2, page 172.