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to get through security at the coronation and setting off a suicide bomb that kills the Regent and assembled German leadership. In the aftermath, the
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upon the discovery that his deceased mother was in fact Jewish. Killing Sara, Penny and
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Kurt von Glass. Glass soon puts Penny to work in organising the "Anglo-German
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unit. Penny arrives in time to save
Cordington but not to stop the ambush, which leads the Germans and their British auxiliaries to massacre everyone in the nearby town of Merricombe in response. He returns with news of the massacre, which Kennedy quickly exploits for propaganda purposes. When they
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The discovery of the leak leads the resistance to abandon contact with Penny yet again, as the German security services are clearly aware of his participation in the resistance and hope by monitoring him they can discover the identity of other members. Penny is therefore surprised when
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now join the effort. Penny is contacted once again by Coral
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a local pub operated by the family of his friend, Roy Locke. There he reconnects with Locke, who immediately begins to recruit him for the emerging resistance movement. Penny begs off, requesting time while he sorts matters out.
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Stolz, is using every pretext for brutalising the local population. Penny and Locke nearly miss curfew, but are saved at the last minute by the timely arrival of Matty
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and his wife out of the country. Yet these are isolated successes amidst a series of setbacks, as the
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by the authorities, including one in hiding on Cordington's estate. A ruse by the resistance reveals the leak: Sara Burskin. Informed of this discovery, Cordington agrees to kill her himself.
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attempt to smuggle Frisch out of England, however, they are met by Sara, who is very much alive and who reveals that Cordington is in fact a
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during the war. His command of German led to his position as a translator and liaison for the German occupation leadership in the region.
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who profits from the war and occupation, taking advantage of Nazi persecutions of Jewish businesses to purchase the Jenners' tea room.
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reap the benefits of the growing crackdown on Jewish businesses. In March, however, the German
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