Werner leaned back in his chair in his – now fully furnished – office at the university building. They had been swamped with applications, but they’d had to reject almost two thirds of the applicants.
It was officially to w**d out Nazis, but Norbert had soon told him to give preference to members of the communist and social-democratic parties, because students vetted in line with Soviet interests would prevent possible trouble later on.
The growing dissatisfaction of the Berliners with their Soviet occupiers had been a frequent discussion among the Gentner group and Werner was one of the few who promoted a more lenient and amiable treatment of the Germans to build a resilient relationship based on trust rather than fear. But most everyone else, including Norbert, favored the solution of
