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The Draughtsman
Robert Lautner

Speak out for the fate of millions or turn a blind eye? We all have choices.‘Absolutely exceptional. So beautifully written, with precision and wisdom and real emotional acuity … A remarkable achievement’ STEPHEN KELMAN, author of Pigeon English1944, Germany. Ernst Beck’s new job marks an end to months of unemployment. Working for Erfurt’s most prestigious engineering firm, Topf & Sons, means he can finally make a contribution to the war effort, provide for his beautiful wife, Etta, and make his parents proud. But there is a price.Ernst is assigned to the firm’s smallest team – the Special Ovens Department. Reporting directly to Berlin his role is to annotate plans for new crematoria that are deliberately designed to burn day and night. Their destination: the concentration camps. Topf’s new client: the SS.As the true nature of his work dawns on him, Ernst has a terrible choice to make: turning a blind eye will keep him and Etta safe, but that’s little comfort if staying silent amounts to collusion in the death of thousands.This bold and uncompromising work of literary fiction shines a light on the complex contradictions of human nature and examines how deeply complicit we can become in the face of fear.

THE DRAUGHTSMAN

Robert Lautner

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction.

The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on

historical events and figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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Source ISBN: 9780008126711

Ebook Edition © January 2017 ISBN: 9780008126735

Version: 2018-01-09

‘It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.’

Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (1974)

Table of Contents

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Title Page (#ub887af95-e287-5f8b-93db-6d7ca73dd209)

Copyright (#u178f0265-3fc1-540a-bc94-ba46fc7564ad)

Epigraph (#u061cf259-be2b-5186-ac25-aa7228f0ab9c)

Prologue (#uac91385a-45e8-51a7-a27a-3eef25daa4e8)

Part One (#uc5948684-9702-53d7-8ae2-96b8d403eff4)

Chapter 1 (#u84032a0b-4031-5d0b-914a-829d8744970e)

Chapter 2 (#u7daa1eef-d150-5001-91a8-fad784289a29)

Chapter 3 (#u30d72c94-3137-5542-b565-24c43ff6dc59)

Chapter 4 (#u4bc8f70e-ba8f-5b43-a02c-4218a066125d)

Chapter 5 (#u07c5b666-dc88-504c-b506-76c6b488ba28)

Chapter 6 (#u7a4fda1d-00c6-5c61-a688-70b29a0f6347)

Chapter 7 (#u34c157d2-22bb-5856-964e-49d96eb11806)

Chapter 8 (#u6dae0246-b671-5417-b7f5-f522d8a0717b)

Chapter 9 (#u5345cedc-d7f5-5786-992e-257611d5083e)

Chapter 10 (#u8caf5e7a-d711-5e3e-848b-8660a98debad)

Chapter 11 (#uf937f9f6-87ab-51f4-8aed-d0508a77af15)

Chapter 12 (#ubc388527-ad04-58df-92b4-7046032b5741)

Chapter 13 (#u1ddb422a-08ec-5876-95bf-b13435535b21)

Chapter 14 (#ude6b126e-993f-5de4-a8ed-e866518dbea7)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)
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