Crabwalk

Gustloff in wartime: as a hospital ship it was not sufficiently in demand, and had to be converted again

Besides, no one says out loud what he thinks. And anyone who tries to is already lying in the first words that come out

finally revealing its originator: “The Führer gave me this order: 'See to it that the German worker gets his holidays, that his nerves may remain sound, for do what I might, it would all be for naught if the German people did not have its nerves in order.

Robert Ley? Yet it was he who dissolved all the labor unions right after the takeover, emptied their coffers, dispatched squads to confiscate everything at their headquarters, and forced all their members, who numbered

Gustloff was the only one I could get at…” He says, “My intention was to strike the bacillus, not the person

First impressions determine the course of a persons life

rise to the idea of suicide. But the instinct for self-preservation innate to every human being deflected the bullet from himself onto another victim

Smoking in the sun on hard-crusted snow. Every step crunched

But I'm still not sure how to go about this: should I do as I was taught and unpack one life at a time, in order, or do I have to sneak up on time in a crabwalk, seeming to go backward but actually scuttling sideways