Originally posted by CROONAERT+Feb 1 2005, 08:13 PM-->(CROONAERT @ Feb 1 2005, 08:13 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Kiwiwriter@Feb 1 2005, 06:45 PM Friedrich has some good points...which are actually echoed in Mark Harris's "Fatherland." He depicts the victorious Third Reich in 1964 as being a creaky and inefficient state, dependent on slave labor, starting to crack at the seams. Certainly a state obsessed with race and obedience, not much for arts or creativity. And absolutely an ugly nation, dominated by sadistic bullies. [post=31127]Quoted post[/post] ...and still fighting a "Northern Ireland" style war in Siberia? Is that the one? If it is, I think I may have read it a while back - is it basically a detective/police/murder novel? I think they might have made it into a film starring Rutger Hauer (?) in the lead role? [post=31133]Quoted post[/post] [/b]Yes, that's the one. It's a police procedural, in which disaffected Gestapo detective Xavier March, played by Rutger Hauer, is investigating the serial murders of retired Nazi bigshots, who seem to have no link...except they're the last survivors of the Wannsee Conference honchos. They are being murdered by the Nazi elite to eliminate the final knowledge of the final solution, so Germany can achieve peace and detente with the United Staets. Interesting book and film. The film has a less ambiguous ending than the book.
