‘Just the way I like it, strong and sugarless...’
He leaned over the desk, grabbed Rudolf by his coat collar and shook him for a few times so badly that his head kept bobbing back and forth like a disarticulated doll’s. Severin brought his face closer, still holding him tight. He could practically breathe in his face.
‘Listen, are you an honorable man...?!’
Rudolf took his eyes off the ceiling and looked back at him. He didn’t understand what he wanted from him, but he sensed that he could find a way to get out of it alive. He nodded.
‘Goood...!’ Severin said. ‘I have a proposition for you...’
Severin knew that killing Rudolf would neither solve his personal situation, as he would immediately get caught and killed, nor end the mass slaughter in the camp. Auschwitz probably had a depu
