Percy had satisfied all at Hamburg in the account of his escape from Soviet Russia, and why not, as every word was the truth, as smelly as it was.
World War Two had six weeks to last by late March 1945, being almost over for the Nazis, barring a signature to say so. However, as an accepted truth amongst the Western allies, the Russians would prefer it to go on until every single German, man, woman or child, was dead, and even then they might not stop. As all the Atlantic fleet of German submarines and support vessels had been withdrawn to home waters, the naval garrison around Liepāja, Latvia had been replaced by native Latvians forced to defend the city in front of a small number of Nazi SS officers willing to die for their cause, and knowing that they would do so. Hitler had painted the
