The Pale House (2 page)

COMPARATIVE CHART OF SS, GERMAN ARMY, AND BRITISH ARMY RANKS

IN THE GERMAN ARMY IN SARAJEVO

IN THE MILITARY POLICE, THE FELDJAEGERKORPS

Captain Gregor Sebastian Reinhardt:
a former detective in the Berlin Kriminalpolizei (Kripo)

Colonel Scheller:
commander of the Feldjaegerkorps in Sarajevo

Captains Lainer and Morten:
decorated veteran officers

Lieutenant Max Benfeld:
a young Feldjaeger officer from Alsace, known as “Frenchie”

Sergeant Priller:
a machine gunner

Corporal Ossig:
communications

Priller, Bader, Pollmann, Triendl:
Feldjaeger

IN THE MILITARY POLICE, THE FELDGENDARMERIE

General Herzog:
commander of military police in Sarajevo

Major Neuffer:
liaison officer to the Feldjaegerkorps

Sergeant Ibel:
a patrol officer

Private Günsche

IN THE 999TH BALKAN FIELD PUNISHMENT BATTALION, UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE FELDGENDARMERIE

Colonel Pistorius:
commanding officer

Major Erwin Jansky:
chief of staff

Lieutenants Brandt and Metzler:
officers in the penal battalion

Kreuz:
a soldier sentenced to the penal battalion, a recidivist and informant

Thun:
a documents clerk

Alexiou:
a Greek, a “hiwi,” a foreign volunteer

Kostas and Panos:
his twin sons

Georg Abler, Carl Benirschke, Otto Berthold, Bruno Cejka, Jozef Fett Werner Janowetz, Marius Maywald, Jürgen Sedlaczek, Christian Seymer, Ulrich Vierow:
soldiers sentenced to the penal battalion, their fate unknown

IN THE SARAJEVO GARRISON

General Kathner:
general officer commanding in Sarajevo

Judge Felix Erdmann:
chief of army criminal justice in Sarajevo

Judge Marcus Dreyer:
serving in the War Crimes Bureau, an old friend of Reinhardt's from Berlin

Colonel Wedel:
in charge of the army's defense plans for Sarajevo

Captain Langenkamp:
army liaison to the Ustaše

Doctor Henke:
a military doctor

Captain Prien:
an officer in military intelligence

IN THE CITY—THE OPPOSING FORCES, THE CITIZENS CAUGHT IN-BETWEEN

IN THE PARTISANS

Vladimir ‘Valter'
:
chief of the Partisans in Sarajevo

Simo:
his right-hand man

IN THE USTAÅ E

General Vjekoslav ‘Maks'
:
commander of the Ustaše in Sarajevo, a man of fearsome reputation

Colonel Ante
:
his deputy, known as “the Gambler,” an old adversary of Reinhardt's

Captain Bunda:
an Ustaše of imposing size and temper

Captain
:
Ustaše liaison officer to the German Army

Nikola Marin and Franjo Sutko:
Ustaše torturers

Labaš and Zulim:
Ustaše soldiers, friends with Bunda

Jovan Buzdek, Svetozar
, and Branimir Zulim:
Ustaše officers, brutal men, of particular interest to the Partisans

IN THE CITIZENRY

Suzana
:
one of the directors of Napredak, a humanitarian organization, and mother of Marija, whose death Reinhardt investigated in The Man From Berlin

Inspector
:
a detective in the Sarajevo police

Almira and Suljo
:
an elderly couple, refugees rescued by Reinhardt from a massacre

Neven:
a boy rescued by Reinhardt at the same time as the

Anica:
a woman working at Napredak

Safet
:
a playwright

ELSEWHERE AND ELSEWHEN . . .

Carolin:
Reinhardt's wife, died of cancer in 1938

Friedrich:
Reinhardt's son, lost with the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad

Captain Koenig:
officer in the Vienna garrison, a member of the German resistance

Rudolf Brauer:
Reinhardt's former partner in the Kripo and his oldest and closest friend

Colonel Tomas Meissner:
Reinhardt's mentor, and regimental commander during WWI, a member of the German resistance, his fate unknown

Major Hassler:
former deputy to Colonel Scheller, killed in action in Montenegro

Doctor Muamer
:
a senior Partisan, a friend of Reinhardt's, known as “the Shadow”

Inspector Andro Padelin:
a Sarajevo policeman and Ustaša, partnered with Reinhardt in
The Man From Berlin