Chapter 9
Anna arrived early at the Charité, and like every day in the past weeks she paused a moment to admire the red brick building and to marvel at what a privilege it was to be able to work with Professor Scherer’s team.
The modern building hadn’t sustained any severe damage during the recent air raids. Anna knocked on wood at the thought and strode past the Pediatric Clinic, a building erected at the beginning of the century. Back then the architecture had been of novel design, and the huge successes the Charité enjoyed in the fields of bacteriology and hygiene were partly attributed to that design.
A towering lecture hall dominated the center of the complex; the wards for patients extended to one side, whereas the actual Polyclinic building occupied the other side of the huge cam
