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Hunt's newest novel, The Berlin Ending, is about a Willy Brandt-like character-Klaus Werber, West German Foreign Minister and notorious "anti-Communist cold warrior," perhaps to be honored with the Nobel Prize and the secretary-generalship of the United Nations. The gimmick: in truth Werber is a Soviet agent...
...many other cities, it was carnival time last week. Masked dancers cavorted through the streets, children dressed up in demons' costumes and whole plazas were carpeted with confetti. In the midst of this celebration, a stocky, thick-necked German named Klaus Altmann sat glumly in a cell of the high-walled San Pedro jail. Newly arrested after nearly 30 years as a fugitive, he confronts the prospect of a French murder trial...
There is "irrefutable evidence," according to the La Paz district attorney, that Altmann is really Klaus Barbie, the SS captain who ran the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944. Among Barbie's crimes were the deportation of thousands of Jews and the torturing to death of several hundred Maquis, including Resistance Leader Jean Moulin. A French military court sentenced him to death in absentia in 1954. Four years earlier, however, Klaus Altmann had migrated from Berlin to Italy to Bolivia, where he went into business and acquired Bolivian citizenship...
...Klaus Barbie, 59, was the Gestapo chief in Lyon. In 1954, a French military court sentenced him to death in absentia for the torture and murder of Jean Moulin, the martyred leader of the French Resistance. Today Barbie lives as a wealthy, naturalized businessman under the name of Klaus Altmann in La Paz, Bolivia. France's request for his extradition has been ignored by the Bolivian government...
...Amerika, Kafka's ubiquitous K. figure finds the Statue of Liberty mysteriously illumined, and ends his journey in the wondrous "nature theatre of Oklahoma." According to Biographer Klaus Mann, Kafka, like many armchair immigrants, "imagined that all Americans wore a perpetual smile...