Mining your fish florida and i work at the. Inconceivable atrocities took place in the nazi era. Three european authors have written very successful crime novels and the third time. So why is this a Fitting Shondra for writing about this chapter of german history. Shaped almost more buffy the moment i wrote a new r. Novel about paris during the occupation because the french know very little about those years should. And even less about the collaboration with the nazis but he almost this city itself becomes a protectionist in the novel a bit too much of a moment it was a violent time. In some parts of paris people were partying while in other parts they were starving for no good no hes a quintessential elements of the war fiction but were not allowed to sell steal money. Because of the price because in the final republic because of the nazis because of the cold war he was being probably the base for t. V. In changing cities most interesting city to write about the us had you said from the Point Of View of crime right up to the anywhere so lets get right. To the body by my life in berlin the final yes but the most exciting time after that because of your apart from the Economy Everything was flourishing intellectual and cultural life and science all of that ended up promptly ninety three its almost impossible to explain this cultural breakdown which was ultimately to wreak havoc on the entire world of the crime novel is the best medium for understanding this period but a lot but good reading. Philip was the first to create a German Police inspector who works in the third. Based in berlin. After the Nazi Takeover And High Stock Fire the nature of policing changed
opposition politicians were rounded up. A man with drafted in to work as exhilarate police. Increasingly jews became a target of persecution. In his novels kermit is history and fiction. Boss is detective superintendent. A modern Police Officer who introduced the use of Crime Scene Forensics he was also the inspiration for superintendent in fritz langs film. Only. It. Started out as a copywriter. In london in the one Nine Hundred Eighty s. First office the second one moment smile face when. That was the
agency i worked in before i went to work. For a subject such. So yeah i worked a man for. Five years. Across the street from because former office is the London Library was bored by Advertising Work so he turned to studying. And writing crime novels. I was very lucky because i mean you know. Working there and having this library here. That seemed like a really you know lucky charms nobody knew i was going it was like. You know i could be over here for an hour and nobody would notice. A sleeve my coat hanging on the back of the chair i come in here yeah exactly. Is this the first place. And i said they came interested in the whole phenomenon of the Nazi Revolution and i wanted to understand it better and once i started to read german philosophy i sort of started to get much more interested in how it all happened hes a kind of extension of me in a lot of ways hes big hes grumpy hes misanthropic. Hes some decent hes temperamentally unemployable. And post your mo hes got a very dark sense of humor as i have got a free blacks and if you man myself but i find that some. I find that chimes with berlin itself and it i think berlin is have a free a very dog sense of humor a cruel sense of humor. Perhaps its me growing up and skull on the debt now but the scots have a very cruel sense of humor and theyre cruel people. And so the cruelty comes out
in the humor i think really and thats that in a way its the its the humor that makes it possible for the writer to get through the book without committing suicide. Writer and former journalist fuckwit child lives than. His first crime novel was published in german in Two Thousand And Seven it was the start of an Award Winning series about cologne native. Who also works as a Police Inspector in berlin. Carry on a lot. Its a typical cologne native the church is important for him and carnival season is even more important hes not as catholic as his parents think he should be but hes more catholic than he realizes hes actually sort of agnostic his attitude is typical of his home city of gnostic or maybe there is a god so we should live our lives in a way that we just that we can to have and. Thats also how german comedian youre
going back to put it in the great of the minus is good enough its not a mortal fear minos of iced. In contrast to philip begins his work in the weimar republic. Hes interested in how inspector hot deals with a transitional from democracy to dictatorship. And his fifth case hartis in cologne for the famous monday carnival parade. In one Nine Hundred Thirty Three mayor con had ordered the removal of Swastika Flags from the streets the parade motto was cannibal like it used to be. But not a flags were everywhere one year later and racist and antisemitic themes also
featured increasingly on the flights this reached its india in one thousand Nine Hundred Eighty nine. That here the war began. And by Nine Hundred Forty Five colonial a in ruins. But in one thousand Nine Hundred Eighty three gods world was still in pretty good shape he even had a flag after all it was khan of all time. And food on site. In those days. Things werent as permissive as they are today still at the Carnival Celebrations Guys could find a girl everyone was in a party mood was told so found a woman but unfortunately he was already engaged that was not exactly appropriate this them so pleasant. Procession of damaged tanks and very young soldiers have it be so. Eight years or more exhausted many are wounded. And theyre on their way home. Testing football this is the cover of the paperback edition photo. The photo shows paris residence during the occupation theyre standing under swastikas and flanks and fraternizing with the germans in a fight that hes su. Well known that you can see a Champagne Glass in the foreground. Here is very relaxed it shows ordinary people having a great time. The nazis chief character. Is a Vice Squad Inspector who works undercover for the resistance and is in Radio Contact with london. He frequents the glamorous parisian salons and observes
firsthand how easily the germans are corrupting french society. He belongs to both the resistance and the police has to play a street in conspicuous character at all times. Hes watched into playing this role he has to appear completely insignificant. Absolutely mo i know but under normal circumstances he wouldnt be like that at all. So ok now on the condition. In her book why not he also writes about a massacre of young Resistance Fighters that was carried out by the french gestapo in august one Nine Hundred Forty Four. We suppress exact among them so that actually happened in what events in. What i moved to the border blown you. All Novel Writing is politics its a huge luxury to be able to write about you know the worst people in history. And go learn people like that they are. Its lighter its like dracula i mean the these are wonderfully villainous or for people to write about that are beyond Invention Novelis could invent a character as wicked as hydra. This is general pace was one of the main architects of the holocaust and Cursed First Novel March Violets going to me titus who sends him to the Concentration Camp as an undercover agent its a painful experience for bernie. In later books had this evolves into his make this. Race was fully capable of being a loving father and
a Brutal Police functionary the checks called him the blonde beast. How did it was assassinated in prague in the one Nine Hundred Forty Two incurs Novel Prague Fertile how trace has bernies lover checks by brutally tortured in his presence. So that scene came around because i just wanted to remind people of what these who these people were and what they did to people and what they were capable of doing to people you know. But equally the method that they used to interrogate their goal is what the cia are doing today so thats why its there you know the nazis invented waterboarding or probably they didnt but they were certainly very effective at doing it so you know you with all the stories you want there to be a kind of. Something that resonates in the modern world. In
january Nine Hundred Forty Two presided over the vines a conference on the Final Solution to the jewish question. There it was decided that most of the jews in german occupied europe would be deported to poland and made it kirk has come here to do research for peace of the. Worst of the worst. And they see it as. The swearing we see youve done after the war was declared he did a lot of time in the in the lift up he became first bill came a recount. In the buff and went on bombing in. Norway. And he really enjoyed he just enjoyed sitting back machine gunning. Another of his nazi era crime novels focuses on a Fictional Police conference that was held five months after the conference. Is dead by then and as she says the conference which is also held at the vans a villa the all. The same time the International Crime of the century was being committed by many of the people sitting in the room and it just struck me as she always love these kind of ironies of history i love the sort of the bits Between The Lines of history that we dont know about i mean it was trite most people is absurd that they would they would do that but thats exactly what they did so you know here where were standing now there would have been in july Nine Hundred Two there with the being policeman from all over youre standing here having a cigarette i mean cup of coffee and then going in there and having lectures from
various policeman and one of whom in the novel will be pentagon for. So burney us turn up and make a speech in there so thats really what i was after im. Standing in that Window Thinking thats where he stands thats where the speech occurs and then they come out here and they have a cup of coffee hes introduced to somebody who will be pivotal in the rest of the story whos a swiss policeman. In One Thousand Nine Hundred Forty the nazis occupied paris. Minorities main character is the head of the french kostopoulos. A highly decorated Police Officer and he controls all of paris together with former gangster all the love for. Both our collaborators and criminals those who oppose them full out of windows will simply vanish for ever hell need to vote against
that before were here at Ninety Three Rule Lower East on that chris was an infamous address during the occupation. It was the headquarters of the french to stop oh yes the people who think that your division. When the lot of money is building where bonnie and la phone had their offices was called lock erlang or the cockpit minimill. You see i see this building witnessed many dreadful crimes who you see many people were tortured here has not been thought the french to stop a was a key element of the Collaboration Structure and next day it could be in the thick head dont mean huge because i. Feel neat because of this it says you need. To consider the plasticity as uni just a few steps away but as they sit there. Day the frame i guess topple prison was located here at number three. On their prisoners were kept here between
interrogations they would do that before they were turned over to the germans ive owned and even its at their grammar. About twenty meters away from the Gestapo Prison at number eleven is the alltel dunno why you during the war it housed one of the liveliest literary and artistic cellphones in paris. He there were two big cell phones one was run by florence the other by madame de no i. Met them to know i. Wasnt the buildings are close together was some of the every time i come here im struck by the contrast and it reminds me that people must have known what was happening here again your plea they could not have ignored it and this is where it all took place memo. This year they extravagant parties and their that doc torture and death spots memo and the buildings were right next to each other. Maybe the french upper class completely accepted the s. S. And they were mocked they dont mean the s. S. Men were more popular because their uniforms were much more attractive uniform that black is a lot more becoming than field gray. A pretty young good to have to go through. The chief collaborators came to an inglorious and the germans abandoned them when they pulled out of paris. When la phone was taken prisoner after the liberation he said i spent four years surrounded by orchids tell you send bentleys it was worth it for a the phone was the rest of the day paris was liberated and was executed immediately. His stance resistance means admitting that terrible things happened. If you dont talk about them you allow them to happen again. I hope you will. As this is instituted which if you are the first sentences are really important just like the last one as you appear to not just in the novel as a whole but in each chapter to get seegers thats the sentence ive got now is ok its ok it definitely gets you into the scene but how im going to stop the book because well i can read it as its going to fall in the suggestive comments on
their own the room was full of people muttering and clouds of Cigarette Smoke max hansens voice grated from the Phonograph Speaker and then comes a call from hanson books and yet. We had a good beat up. On. The main issue you. Need me if you know the think you need to. Believe him and ill talk right of inishmaan how can i continue my daily routine when i realize that everything around me is changing radically and i throw this up the shaft a lot since i got to be careful he is just one of us no more rule of law often and its easy to fall into the clutches of a wild pack of essay wolves thats bush didnt need money would never stick his neck out like phillip because benny going to no way even if he says im going to know what hes a totally different kind of character your feet are going to sometimes i wonder how going to could have survived back then. Rod might have a big mouth in charlies present but never around anyone from the s. S. O. S. A. It was if we had was as they can all go projects i used to carefully plot out everything as you should do with Crime Stories of the plot is really important but lots of ideas come to you while youre writing and thats great its surprising how many of these ideas you can use and how things work out differently than id imagined and thats not so bad because if i can surprise myself hopefully i can surprise my readers as well at least thats what im striving to achieve for us just as hes gotten most of. This is what gave you my heart to look like in a new graphic novel. This is beyond your comic all soon this is how the artist imagine same effect of being done for them his gear we are in front of headquarters on berlins alexanderplatz in the plots and thats barely house. You can see the stop lights and power lines and of course
a cigarette you better carry all never leaves home without one. We all know. The especially novels written in the first person are the i. In the eye makes it more personal its like you yourself are meeting gerbils youre self or having to shake his hand and have a meeting at a coffee and a cigarette with gerbils and you yourself are having to be careful about what you say so hopefully the choices the conversation brings you to. Brings bernie to the same choices that the reader would have which is you know how do i say how do i give this person what they want but without compromising my moral. My my true moral inner self how do i do that how do i not do everything he wants without ending up dead and so
you know these are the things that interest me as a as a writer how to be how to walk that tightrope. Little. Girls was famously. Wanted. You seem to have had an affair with many actresses. Principally one called lead a bar over but he got a bit of a reputation as a ladies and it wasnt just the sort of rest of the the third reich that made jokes about about his sexual. Appetites it was pretty much so. And of course being in control of germanys Film Industry which was based here was like sort of. Putting this you know. A fact kid in charge of this weeks
show really wasnt perhaps the best thing that could have. Could have happened. And cast early crime novel a quiet flame danny boldly climbs into the flask of yours if god is in the bathroom he leaves behind a most unpleasant calling card. I was asked myself what i would do you know and i guess thats what i would have done if i ever found myself in goebbels his bathroom you know i did yeah use this toilet and then flush it and. I got it as i think i probably told you earlier im going to sort of naturally dark sense of humor. Makes writing about nazi germany from
a detective Point Of View so interest