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13 hours agoThe SS policeman who hunted his criminal comrades from within the Nazi system itself
Konrad Morgen, with the face of a gray-haired office worker or a high school nerd, who did not immediately appear intimidating even when squeezed into his SS uniform, bears no physical resemblance to the tough fictional detective Bernie Gunther, created by the late writer Philip Kerr, who also investigated crimes from within the police system of the Third Reich. But that man with the bottle-bottom glasses and the air of a bland bureaucrat was someone real.
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