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The Draughtsman
Robert Lautner
Speak out for the fate of millions or turn a blind eye? We all have choices.‘Absolutely exceptional. So beautifully written, with precision and wisdom and real emotional acuity … A remarkable achievement’ STEPHEN KELMAN, author of Pigeon English1944, Germany. Ernst Beck’s new job marks an end to months of unemployment. Working for Erfurt’s most prestigious engineering firm, Topf & Sons, means he can finally make a contribution to the war effort, provide for his beautiful wife, Etta, and make his parents proud. But there is a price.Ernst is assigned to the firm’s smallest team – the Special Ovens Department. Reporting directly to Berlin his role is to annotate plans for new crematoria that are deliberately designed to burn day and night. Their destination: the concentration camps. Topf’s new client: the SS.As the true nature of his work dawns on him, Ernst has a terrible choice to make: turning a blind eye will keep him and Etta safe, but that’s little comfort if staying silent amounts to collusion in the death of thousands.This bold and uncompromising work of literary fiction shines a light on the complex contradictions of human nature and examines how deeply complicit we can become in the face of fear.
THE DRAUGHTSMAN
Robert Lautner
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‘It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.’
Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (1974)
Table of Contents
Cover (#u13e3acb2-9d03-535e-935a-1480e673648e)
Title Page (#ub887af95-e287-5f8b-93db-6d7ca73dd209)
Copyright (#u178f0265-3fc1-540a-bc94-ba46fc7564ad)
Epigraph (#u061cf259-be2b-5186-ac25-aa7228f0ab9c)
Prologue (#uac91385a-45e8-51a7-a27a-3eef25daa4e8)
Part One (#uc5948684-9702-53d7-8ae2-96b8d403eff4)
Chapter 1 (#u84032a0b-4031-5d0b-914a-829d8744970e)
Chapter 2 (#u7daa1eef-d150-5001-91a8-fad784289a29)
Chapter 3 (#u30d72c94-3137-5542-b565-24c43ff6dc59)
Chapter 4 (#u4bc8f70e-ba8f-5b43-a02c-4218a066125d)
Chapter 5 (#u07c5b666-dc88-504c-b506-76c6b488ba28)
Chapter 6 (#u7a4fda1d-00c6-5c61-a688-70b29a0f6347)
Chapter 7 (#u34c157d2-22bb-5856-964e-49d96eb11806)
Chapter 8 (#u6dae0246-b671-5417-b7f5-f522d8a0717b)
Chapter 9 (#u5345cedc-d7f5-5786-992e-257611d5083e)
Chapter 10 (#u8caf5e7a-d711-5e3e-848b-8660a98debad)
Chapter 11 (#uf937f9f6-87ab-51f4-8aed-d0508a77af15)
Chapter 12 (#ubc388527-ad04-58df-92b4-7046032b5741)
Chapter 13 (#u1ddb422a-08ec-5876-95bf-b13435535b21)
Chapter 14 (#ude6b126e-993f-5de4-a8ed-e866518dbea7)
Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 27 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 29 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 30 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 32 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 33 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 34 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 35 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 36 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 37 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 38 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 39 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 40 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 41 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 42 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 43 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 44 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 45 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 46 (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 47 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 48 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 49 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 50 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 51 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 52 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 53 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 54 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 55 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 56 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 57 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 58 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 59 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 60 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 61 (#litres_trial_promo)
Author’s Note (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
