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Uno worked the lock and opened the door. He sighed as the recognizable scent of

paint and plaster met him. It was a rarity these days. He walked down the
hallway past the staff room on his left. He went further down the corridor to the

office where he’d spent so many gratifying hours, eventually ending up in the

largest room of the gallery.
A small gasp escaped his lips as he met to the dome-shaped room. There was six

large skylights provided plenty of room for the moonlight to flow down. He just

now noticed how the room was covered in moonlight. He’d often turned the light
on in the past. This night he wanted it turned off. He took a chair, and sat down in

the middle of the room, as he stretched his neck up to the sky and listened to
silence.

"Do you want total war?"

Dr. Joseph Goebbels had persuaded the thousands of people gathered in the

Berliner Sportpalast. The crowd’s answer that February evening in the giant
sports and congress hall, was an overwhelming yes. A rhetorical gift Goebbels

wielded, Uno thought to himself. But he was also a dangerous man.
"Go, people! And let the storm break out!" Goebbels incited the audience.

For Uno personally, who wasn’t amongst the carefully selected audience

in Berliner Sportpalast, but who heard the speech on the radio a few hours later,

it cemented that the Germans were jammed with war propaganda. In his eyes, a
clear and very unambiguous evidence, that Germany was on its way into the

abyss. Not only would any reasonable German see the madness of this, but the
surrounding world would strongly react to Goebbel's war propaganda. He feared

that the bombs were soon to be intensified over Berlin. And that it would no

longer be only power plants, factories and waterworks that were the targets, but
ordinary civilians of Berlin.

After sitting for a while and looking up at the moonlight, he got up and left
the round room and went into a smaller showroom. With his hand on the switch,

he considered for a moment whether he should turn the light on. If a guard

discovered him at the museum, he now had a legitimate excuse for being there.
And besides that, he had keys to the museum and were allowed to appear once in