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...That Boris had returned in broken health from a stormy visit with Adolf Hitler. Sofia and Berlin denied there had been a visit. But no one could forget other men who had left the Führer's presence the worse for wear. At Berchtesgaden in 1938, just before the annexation of Austria, stubborn Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg had been shattered by hysterics and threats...
...Berlin in 1939, on the eve of Czechoslovakia's dissolution, plodding President Emil Hacha had collapsed after 45 minutes of the Führer's ranting...
...Boris, long known as the foxiest monarch in Europe, saw the time had come to shift from a pro-German policy. Even if he had not faced the Führer's fury, the pressures squeezing his throne might have felled any man of weak heart...
...Lice Throwers" specialized in vermin. Every Saturday night they would hunt for "the biggest specimens." For twelve super-lice, the club paid one mark. On Sunday morning each member lined up for inspection holding a prize louse between finger and thumb. As the Kommandoführer marched down the ranks, members saluted smartly, thereby snapping the "live dose of itch" in his direction. After endless practice on an old overcoat, the prisoners could hit the Kommandoführer "below the belt" once in three tries...
...their endless battles with the Kommandoführer and his guards required patience and trickery. When packages arrived for the prisoners from home or from the Red Cross, the guards would stare avidly at bars of chocolate, coffee, wool socks. In return for small favors, prisoners would reward the guards, later demand greater favors under threat of reporting the guard for eating a prisoner's food. To Hélion. who worked as an interpreter in the Kommandoführer's office, there came a daily cup of steaming American coffee. (The coffee, sent to Hélion...