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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Günther, Becker, Belinsky entitled A German Requiem.
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conversations.value: A German Requiem (novel): After spending the latter part of the war in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp, 1947 sees Bernhard Günther now married to a wife who is trading sex withS.\nArmy officers for scarce goods.\nBerlin and Vienna were captured by the Red Army, so Germans, former Nazis, Allied occupiers and Günther have the Russians to contend with.\nAn old colleague from Günther\'s days in Berlin, a dirty cop, war criminal, and smuggler named Emil Becker, has been accused and jailed in Vienna for the killing of an American officer called Linden.\nA high-ranking MVD officer named Poroshin, who claims to be a friend of Becker, tries to recruit Günther to investigate the case and get Becker exonerated in exchange for a large fee.\nAccording to Poroshin, after acting as a secret Vienna-Berlin courier for a certain König, Becker was framed for the murder of Linden, who Becker had met through König.\nGünther takes a train to Vienna and visits Becker in jail, where he learns that Becker\'s henchmen had been killed trying to find König and his girlfriend Lotte Hartmann at Becker\'s request.\nGünther starts his investigation in Vienna, by attending Linden\'s funeral, where he is accosted by Roy Shields, an American MP.\nAt approximately the same time, Günther rescues a recent acquaintance, Veronika, a local prostitute he met as part of the investigation, from rape by two Russian soldiers.\nAs part of the intervention, Günther gets knocked down and is himself rescued in extremis by John Belinsky, a man bearing identification associating him with the American Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) that had been covertly tailing him.\nThey fraternize, Belinsky admits to also being investigating the murder of Linden, and they agree to collaborate.\nWhen Günther discovers the whereabouts of Lotte Hartman, he teams up with Belinsky to organize a scheme in which Günther and Lotte would be somehow about be arrested and jailed by the Russians, so that Günther could ingratiate himself with her by obtaining her freedom.\nThe scheme works and Günther is eventually approached by König, who wants to repay him from springing Lotte.\nAfter they meet, König is impressed by Günther\'s past credentials and eventually, recruits him in a secret organization of former Nazis called the "Org", which Günther accepts to infiltrate with the knowledge of Belinsky.\nGünther soon finds out that Becker was also in the Org, for which he was acting as a double agent for his friend Poroshin.\nOne night, Veronika finds Günther to ask for his help getting rid of the body of a "client", Heim, who died of a heart attack in her bed.\nGünther, with the help of Belinsky, oblige and as part of the operation discover that Heim was a dentist specializing in teeth extractions, visibly for the purpose of making Nazis escape identification through dental records.\nAt that point Belinsky reveals that he is actually looking for Heinrich Müller, the former head of the Gestapo, who faked his death and is suspected of having killed Linden.\nBelinsky asks Günther to find Müller, which would allow him to free Becker.\nAs Günther\'s infiltration of the Org progresses, he eventually gets to meet Arthur Nebe, who was also presumed dead.\nIt now becomes clear that the members of the Org had all received new identities to hide their Nazi past, which involved the removal of their teeth.\nTo catch Müller, Günther and Belinsky organize a sting operation at the vineyard estate of Nebe in Grinzing on the occasion of a formal meeting of the Org.\nGünther shows up to the meeting early to look for Veronika, who had disappeared in the meantime, but gets intercepted by murderous Latvian guard before being rescued by Nebe.\nHe nevertheless gets to meet with Müller, who ends up believing his cover.\nAs he moves around the house to signal from a window for Belinsky to storm the property, Günther discovers that Veronika is being tortured in the cellar by König.\nHe frees her but is taken down by the Latvian again.\nHis cover blown, Günther gets interrogated by Müller under threat that they will crush Veronika in a wine press.\nGünther admits everything he knows but Veronika gets crushed anyways.\nLater, Nebe visits Günther in his cell and tells him the complete story of Linden so he can feed it back to Müller to avoid further torture.\nDuring their conversation Nebe eats a cake poisoned by Günther and dies, allowing Günther to escape the property in a car which he later crashes during the ensuing pursuit.\nThe novel ends as Günther recovers and learns from Shield that Becker had been hanged and Belinsky was not actually a CIC officer, but an agent of Poroshin.
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conversations.value: \nThe novel ends as Günther recovers and learns from Shield that Becker had been hanged and Belinsky was not actually a CIC officer, but an agent of Poroshin.\nArmy officers for scarce goods.\nBerlin and Vienna were captured by the Red Army, so Germans, former Nazis, Allied occupiers and Günther have the Russians to contend with.\nAn old colleague from Günther\'s days in Berlin, a dirty cop, war criminal, and smuggler named Emil Becker, has been accused and jailed in Vienna for the killing of an American officer called Linden.\nA high-ranking MVD officer named Poroshin, who claims to be a friend of Becker, tries to recruit Günther to investigate the case and get Becker exonerated in exchange for a large fee.\nAccording to Poroshin, after acting as a secret Vienna-Berlin courier for a certain König, Becker was framed for the murder of Linden, who Becker had met through König.\nGünther takes a train to Vienna and visits Becker in jail, where he learns that Becker\'s henchmen had been killed trying to find König and his girlfriend Lotte Hartmann at Becker\'s request.\nGünther starts his investigation in Vienna, by attending Linden\'s funeral, where he is accosted by Roy Shields, an American MP.\nAt approximately the same time, Günther rescues a recent acquaintance, Veronika, a local prostitute he met as part of the investigation, from rape by two Russian soldiers.\nAs part of the intervention, Günther gets knocked down and is himself rescued in extremis by John Belinsky, a man bearing identification associating him with the American Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) that had been covertly tailing him.\nThey fraternize, Belinsky admits to also being investigating the murder of Linden, and they agree to collaborate.\nWhen Günther discovers the whereabouts of Lotte Hartman, he teams up with Belinsky to organize a scheme in which Günther and Lotte would be somehow about be arrested and jailed by the Russians, so that Günther could ingratiate himself with her by obtaining her freedom.\nThe scheme works and Günther is eventually approached by König, who wants to repay him from springing Lotte.\nAfter they meet, König is impressed by Günther\'s past credentials and eventually, recruits him in a secret organization of former Nazis called the "Org", which Günther accepts to infiltrate with the knowledge of Belinsky.\nGünther soon finds out that Becker was also in the Org, for which he was acting as a double agent for his friend Poroshin.\nOne night, Veronika finds Günther to ask for his help getting rid of the body of a "client", Heim, who died of a heart attack in her bed.\nGünther, with the help of Belinsky, oblige and as part of the operation discover that Heim was a dentist specializing in teeth extractions, visibly for the purpose of making Nazis escape identification through dental records.\nAt that point Belinsky reveals that he is actually looking for Heinrich Müller, the former head of the Gestapo, who faked his death and is suspected of having killed Linden.\nBelinsky asks Günther to find Müller, which would allow him to free Becker.\nAs Günther\'s infiltration of the Org progresses, he eventually gets to meet Arthur Nebe, who was also presumed dead.\nIt now becomes clear that the members of the Org had all received new identities to hide their Nazi past, which involved the removal of their teeth.\nTo catch Müller, Günther and Belinsky organize a sting operation at the vineyard estate of Nebe in Grinzing on the occasion of a formal meeting of the Org.\nGünther shows up to the meeting early to look for Veronika, who had disappeared in the meantime, but gets intercepted by murderous Latvian guard before being rescued by Nebe.\nHe nevertheless gets to meet with Müller, who ends up believing his cover.\nAs he moves around the house to signal from a window for Belinsky to storm the property, Günther discovers that Veronika is being tortured in the cellar by König.\nHe frees her but is taken down by the Latvian again.\nHis cover blown, Günther gets interrogated by Müller under threat that they will crush Veronika in a wine press.\nGünther admits everything he knows but Veronika gets crushed anyways.\nLater, Nebe visits Günther in his cell and tells him the complete story of Linden so he can feed it back to Müller to avoid further torture.\nDuring their conversation Nebe eats a cake poisoned by Günther and dies, allowing Günther to escape the property in a car which he later crashes during the ensuing pursuit.A German Requiem (novel): After spending the latter part of the war in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp, 1947 sees Bernhard Günther now married to a wife who is trading sex withS.
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for the book.
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conversations.value: A German Requiem
  Reading the articles I realized that I had never thought the Americans were capable of such efficiency. Admittedly, there had been a certain amount of luck involved in the accumulation of some of the Centre's documentary collections. For example, troops of the US Seventh Army had stumbled on the complete Nazi Party membership records at a paper mill near Munich, where they were about to be pulped. But staff at the Centre had set about the creation and organization of the most comprehensive archive, so that it could be determined with complete accuracy exactly who was a Nazi. As well as the NSDAP master files, the Centre included in its collection the NSDAP membership applications, Party correspondence, SS service records, Reich Security Office records, SS racial records, proceedings of the Supreme Party Court and the People's Court — everything from the membership files of the National Socialist Schoolteachers' Organization to a file detailing expulsions from the Hitler Youth.
  Another thought occurred to me as I left the library and made my way to the railway station. I would never have believed that the Nazis could have been stupid enough to have recorded their own activities in such comprehensive and incriminating detail.
  I left the U-Bahn — a stop too early as it turned out — at a station in the American sector which, for no reason to do with their occupation of the city, was called Uncle Tom's Hut, and walked down Argentinische Allee.
  Surrounded by the tall fir trees of the Grünewald, and only a short distance from a small lake, the Berlin Documents Centre stood in well-guarded grounds at the end of Wasserkäfersteig, a cobblestoned cul-de-sac. Inside a wire fence the Centre comprised a number of buildings, but the main part of the BDC appeared to be a two-storey affair at the end of a raised pathway, painted white and with green shutters on the windows. It was a nice-looking place, although I soon remembered it as the headquarters of the old Forschungsamt — the Nazis' telephone-tapping centre.
  The soldier at the gatehouse, a big, gap-toothed Negro, eyed me suspiciously as I halted at his checkpoint. He was probably more used to dealing with people in cars, or military vehicles, than with a lone pedestrian.
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conversations.value: I cursed myself again and then stuck my head back into Belinsky's car. 'The lady needs our help,' I grunted, without much enthusiasm.
  He drove to Rotenturmstrasse and parked outside the bomb-damaged building where Veronika had her room. When we got out of the car I pointed across the darkened cobbles of Stephansplatz to the partly restored cathedral.
  He was too drunk to argue. Instead he nodded dully and walked back towards the Cathedral scaffolding, while I turned and followed Veronika up the stairs to her room.
  A large, lobster-coloured man of about fifty lay dead in her big oak bed. Vomiting is quite common in cases of congestive heart failure. It covered his nose and mouth like a bad facial burn. I pressed my fingers against the man's clammy neck.
  When I'd finished with the body I stood up and straightened my tie. 'This is hard work on a vodka supper. Now where the hell is Belinsky?' Spotting the man's clothes which were laid neatly over the back of a dining-chair by the grimy net curtains, I said: 'Have you been through his pockets yet?'
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conversations.value: Now where the hell is Belinsky?' Spotting the man's clothes which were laid neatly over the back of a dining-chair by the grimy net curtains, I said: 'Have you been through his pockets yet?'. 'The lady needs our help,' I grunted, without much enthusiasm.
  He drove to Rotenturmstrasse and parked outside the bomb-damaged building where Veronika had her room. When we got out of the car I pointed across the darkened cobbles of Stephansplatz to the partly restored cathedral.
  He was too drunk to argue. Instead he nodded dully and walked back towards the Cathedral scaffolding, while I turned and followed Veronika up the stairs to her room.
  A large, lobster-coloured man of about fifty lay dead in her big oak bed. Vomiting is quite common in cases of congestive heart failure. It covered his nose and mouth like a bad facial burn. I pressed my fingers against the man's clammy neck.
  When I'd finished with the body I stood up and straightened my tie. 'This is hard work on a vodka supper.I cursed myself again and then stuck my head back into Belinsky's car.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: I left the Imperial Crypt with as much spring in my step as Lazarus. Outside, on Neuer Markt, there were still more people watching the strange little Café-terrace that had no Café. Then I saw the camera and the lights, and at the same time I spotted Willy Reichmann, the little red-haired production manager from Sievering Film Studios. He was speaking English to another man who was holding a megaphone. This was surely the English film that Willy had told me about: the one for which Vienna's increasingly rare ruins had been a prerequisite. The film in which Lotte Hartmann, the girl who had given me a well-deserved dose of drip, had been given a part.
  I stopped to watch for a few moments, wondering if I might catch sight of König's girlfriend, but there was no sign of her. I thought it unlikely that she would have left Vienna with him and passed up her first screen role.
  One of the onlookers around me said, 'What on earth are they doing?' and another answered saying, 'It's supposed to be a Café — the Mozart Café.' Laughter rippled through the crowd. 'What, here?' said another voice. 'Apparently they like the view better here,' replied a fourth. 'It's what they call poetic licence.'
  Leaving the crowd to watch what happened next, I walked quickly south, towards the real Mozart Café and the wife who was waiting there for me.
  Attempts by a leading British newspaper and an American news magazine to investigate the story in detail have so far come to nothing.