Ruby Red Death

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The German SS office for the control of internal affairs in Romania was located in Bucharest, at 9 Straulesti Street. It was a three-story, gray stone building. Inside, the floors were chopped up into little cubicles designed to hold mostly file cabinets and few people.

Every hour on the hour for the last three days, Greta Schell left her cubicle and walked briskly down a long corridor to the office of the area commander, SS Gruppenführer Graf von Wassner.

It was four o’clock on the afternoon of August the twelfth. Greta ripped the last coded report from the machine and moved quickly. Her heels tapped heavily on the wooden floors bleached with too much scrubbing.

She knocked once on the glass pane of the door and entered without a command. Wordlessly, she placed the report on the desk and stepped back to gauge its effect.

Von Wassner scanned the latest news quickly, and then read it a second time.

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