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A Man Without Breath

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A Man Without Breath	comment	A Man Without Breath is a 2013 novel by Philip Kerr. It is the ninth novel in the Bernie Gunther detective series.February, 1943. The war has turned bad for Nazi Germany after the surrender of the Sixth Army at Stalingrad. Bernie Gunther, meanwhile, has found work in the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, which has becomes sort of a refuge for anti-Nazi establishment types. Bernie for his part takes ironic black humor in the fact that he might find himself prosecuting a single German soldier for the rape and murder of a peasant woman while the SS might be massacring tens of thousands of Jews in the next village over.It's his job for the War Crimes Bureau that gets him sent to Smolensk. The army has heard of the murder of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest outside of Smolensk, and a German officer has discovered what looks like a mass grave, complete with a human bone unearthed by a wolf. Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels is eager to use the rumored massacres as propaganda against the Soviet Union, but Bernie must first determine if there really is a mass grave, and whether it is really Polish officers murdered by the Soviets, as opposed to, say, thousands of Jews murdered by the Nazis.So Bernie finds himself, much to his displeasure, in Smolensk. While he plunges into the mystery of the bodies in the forest, other matters begin to claim his attention. Two German signalmen (radio operators) are found dead, murdered as they left a whorehouse. And as Bernie discovers, there is a clique of high-ranking officers in the headquarters of Army Group Center who are plotting to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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A Man Without Breath / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
A Man Without Breath / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Of the blackest sort. Bernie takes dark amusement in working for the German War Crimes Bureau, and prosecuting individual Wehrmacht soldiers, when the Nazis are committing murder on an industrial scale.
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A Man Without Breath / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
A Man Without Breath / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Is it important that Bernie is asked to return Dyakov's personal effects after Dyakov is released from the hospital? Of course it is! The vital clue that unravels the mystery falls out of the envelope.
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A Man Without Breath / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
A Man Without Breath / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Bernie comes to in the street, after a German bomb landed on the apartment building where he was visiting friends. He sees Klara, the woman he admired, lying next to him looking up at the stars. He calls to her several times before he realizes she is dead.
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A Man Without Breath / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
A Man Without Breath / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: Fabian von Schlabrendorff's attempt to kill Hitler via suicide bomb doesn't come off because Hitler left before von Schlabrendorff could set off the bombs. Bernie, who knows what is happening, hustles von Schlabrendorff into a restroom to disarm the bombs. Von Schlabrendorff asks "Are you nervous?", and Bernie snarks back "Whatever gave you that idea? I always get a kick out of being near explosives that are about to go off."
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A Man Without Breath / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
A Man Without Breath / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Bernie makes passing reference to Joseph Stalin's son being killed by Polish partisans in 1939. Stalin's oldest son Yakov was captured by the Germans during the early days of Operation Barbarossa, and died in a German POW camp in 1943.
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A Man Without Breath / int_62700738	comment	Ear Trumpet: A random gag has the old landlady at Dr. Batov's apartment building using an ear trumpet, which doesn't matter anyway because Bernie doesn't speak Russian.
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A Man Without Breath / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
A Man Without Breath / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: It turns out that von Kluge's valet, Dyakov, is actually an NKVD officer, Krivyenko. When Krivyenko realized that he was about to be captured by the Germans, he killed his prisoner, the real Dyakov, and assumed his identity to avoid execution under the Commissar Order.
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A Man Without Breath / int_71027471	type	Perfumigation
A Man Without Breath / int_71027471	comment	Perfumigation: Bernie snarks that the reason Hitler left the exhibition so quickly, and escaped being assassinated by von Schlabrendorff's bomb, is that he caught a whiff of von Schlabrendorff's cologne.
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A Man Without Breath / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
A Man Without Breath / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: Bernie's life is saved when a rifle bullet meant for him hits the hard wooden stock of the rifle Bernie is carrying.
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A Man Without Breath / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
A Man Without Breath / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: A Running Gag throughout the series is the otherwise darkly cynical Bernie's obsession with breasts. He says of Marian that "her chest was no less full", and that her rack reminds him of the domes of two neighboring churches back in Berlin.
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A Man Without Breath / int_967856d8	type	Hired to Hunt Yourself
A Man Without Breath / int_967856d8	comment	Hired to Hunt Yourself: Bernie feels compelled to murder Cpl. Quidde, because Quidde is about to recklessly reveal the recording of von Kluge, which will almost certainly expose the entire conspiracy to assassinate Hitler. Naturally, he is tabbed to investigate Quidde's death. He passes it off as a suicide but that's foiled when Dr. Buhtz determines that it's murder.
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A Man Without Breath / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
A Man Without Breath / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Bernie reminisces about how he got out of the police force when the Nazis came to power, only to rejoin them "five years later, when Heydrich obliged me to return." That's novel The Pale Criminal. Admiral Canaris says a man on his staff was exposed as a mole for the Czechs. That's Prague Fatale.
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A Man Without Breath / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
A Man Without Breath / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: As Bernie explains, in German "Marian" is usually a man's name, so he's pleasantly surprised when Dr. Marion Kramsta turns out to be a gorgeous woman.
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A Man Without Breath / int_ac7471b0	type	The Dead Have Names
A Man Without Breath / int_ac7471b0	comment	The Dead Have Names: Bernie is interrogating Cpl. Hermischen, who is facing a death sentence for raping and murdering two Russian women. When Bernie mentions their names and Hermischen doesn't recognize them, an appalled Bernie says "Don't tell me you don't know their names?"
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A Man Without Breath / int_c2c28e90	comment	Tokyo Rose: Bernie makes a passing reference to listening to Midge Gillars on the radio. That's Mildred Gillars aka "Axis Sally", an American citizen and German propagandist who was convicted of treason after the war.
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A Man Without Breath / int_c64a7400	type	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
A Man Without Breath / int_c64a7400	comment	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: "After we'd disposed of the French—something that never takes very long for Germans...."
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A Man Without Breath / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
A Man Without Breath / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The officers' mess in Smolensk screens notorious anti-Semitic propaganda film Jew Suss. Bernie goes inside the local whorehouse and thinks that "inside, the place was decorated like The Blue Angel".
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A Man Without Breath / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
A Man Without Breath / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: The first Bernie Gunther novel, March Violets, specifies that Bernie fought in World War I on the Turkish front. In this story he remembers trench warfare in Flanders.
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A Man Without Breath / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
A Man Without Breath / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: Multiple references to a pending German offensive at a place called Kursk. This offensive would end in defeat and would mark the last time the Germans tried to take the offensive in the East. Bernie describes Ferdinand de Brinon's visit to the Katyn site and mentions offhandedly that he will be shot by the French for collaboration in 1947.
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A Man Without Breath / int_f3da74ff	type	Creepy Crows
A Man Without Breath / int_f3da74ff	comment	Creepy Crows: "Crows growled their contempt" as Bernie is led out to what is suspected to be a mass grave of Polish officers.
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