Word: siegmaringen
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...line's earlier volumes were set against the corruption of pre-war France, Castle to Castle takes place in a special Nazi detention camp. The author's attention is focused, if flashes of sheet lightning can be said to focus, on the "Boche Baroque" fortress-prison of Siegmaringen. The time is late in the war. France has already been liberated by the Allies. At Siegmaringen, French collaborators (including Celine) are huddled together, fearful of R.A.F. bombs, of their German masters and, most of all, of one another. In this bedlam, swarming with bizarre characters, are real personages from...
...front of the throne stood a young man with a slight paunch and the Soviet Order of Victory on his thickly beribboned chest; he was Michael Hohenzollern-Siegmaringen, King of Rumania. Before him sat a group of men in tail coats and white ties; they were His Majesty's ministers, and most of them were Communists. The tableau was a remarkable manifestation of Communist elasticity. Young (26) Michael reigns in royal panoply over a state actually run by the Communists...