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Chapter 326 - The Asiatic plague wants to talk?

Inside, Hitler stood at the map table, palms pressing the edges as if he might bend Europe with his fingers.

Keitel and Himmler waited against the wall, half-in shadow.

Keitel's face had the careful emptiness of a man who knows that words can kill.

Himmler's had the pinched intensity of a schoolmaster who expects the class to disappoint him.

Ribbentrop stopped at the edge of the light and bowed his head. "Mein Führer."

Hitler did not look up at once.His eyes tracked the line from Breslau to Poznań to Warsaw. "They cheered in the streets," he said, like a man commenting on the weather.

"In Prague. They cheered while we took back what was ours. They cheer because they are sensible. Do you know who does not cheer? The English. They cluck. The French preen." His mouth pulled to one side. "Moreau preens like a peacock."

Ribbentrop waited.

The name hung in the air between them.

Even saying "France" was different now.

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