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Friday, May 4

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[ As a rule, Steph responds in whatever format she's given, even if it's a little strange that he's suddenly using text. ]

A solid A- depending how much weight is put on dates. What do you want to know?

World War Two.

[There's a pause. He's doing voice to text on his end.]

The camps for Jewish civilians. How many from England were taken to them?

[ Oh, God. There's not really a way this conversation ends well for anyone. ]

Too many. Not all Jewish, but a lot were German refugees. Most were released, but not all of them.

The Jews are who I want to know about now. British citizens.

[He doesn't really want to spell it out, but in case it's necessary:]

I want to know if anyone I know is likely to have been taken. Any of my family.

It was mostly safe in England. They rounded up Germans, Italians, anyone they worried might be spies. If your family stayed in England they were probably okay.

All right.

[That's at least a relief, even if none of the rest of it is.]

I was told millions might have died in total, but she didn't know for sure. Do you know?

Millions, yeah. But the worst of it was in Germany.

[Millions of civilians. Millions of his people.

There's another long pause.]

Well.

Thanks.

I'm sorry. I wish I had more solid information for you. But I don't know that it would help much if I did.

[There's an even longer pause this time; it's nearly half a day before he gets around to getting back to her.]

You handled it better than the other woman did.

[ That's a little ominous. ]

Who did you talk to?

A woman from the same time as when it happened. Peggy.

[ Hmm. ]

A lot of information about what was going on in Germany didn't come out until after the war. If I'm not totally misreading things, I think Peggy is military.

That does not give her the right to tell me I need to be more polite and understanding of how the systematic murder of my people affects her and her feelings. If she's going to drop this sort of thing on a man on his first day here, she can bloody well deal with questions without getting snappish about it.

[Whoops, still mad.]

So I don't much feel like hearing words in her defense right now, yeah?

[ Oooh, ouch. ]

That's fair.

[ Man, what can she even say? World War 2 didn't make anyone look good. ]

Do you want to know more? None of it's very comforting, but it did end.

And our side wins, yeah.

[So at least there's that.]

When does the war start, and how long does it last?

September 1st 1939 to September 2nd 1945. The US didn't get involved until December 7th 1941.