The Man Who Was Saturday
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Patrick Bishop. The Man Who Was Saturday
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Maps
Preface
‘Some Devils Got Him’
A Question of Upbringing
Blooded
‘In the Bag’
The Escaping Club
Home Run
Room 900
From Normandy to Nuremberg
The Long March
Darkest Hour
‘A Perfect Woman, Nobly Planned’
The Arithmetic of Victory
Warrior in a Dark Blue Suit
‘The Perfect Target’
Hinton Waldrist
Acknowledgements
Notes
Picture Section
Index
Also by Patrick Bishop
About the Author
About the Publisher
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Neave soon learned that it did not do to mock Germany’s new masters. Dietrich, the elder son of the family, who was at university in Berlin, was not a party member and admired the young guest’s independent spirit but warned him that it could be dangerous. One day, waiting for the train at Nikolassee, Neave sniggered at the sight of a ‘fat, brown-booted storm-trooper’. He recalled that Dietrich ‘hastily manoeuvred me out of sight. I can remember the bloodshot pig-eyes of the storm-trooper glaring towards us.’20
This was an extraordinary experience for a seventeen-year-old boy raised in a code of understatement and emotional restraint. The account he left of it was written in 1978 – that is, forty-five years after the event. Time and hindsight surely led Neave to lend a certain sophistication to the thoughts and reactions of his teenage self. Yet there is no doubt that exposure to the sights and sounds and passions of Nazism touched him and filled him with foreboding. It had given him an insight into the nature of Hitler’s rule that turned out to be more astute than that of many of his elders, who still regarded Hitler as a temporary phenomenon, or as someone who was subject to the normal laws of diplomacy and power politics.
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