The phone call came at 11:47 on a Tuesday morning, and by 3 PM, my entire department had been ordered into a secure room I’d never seen before. A courier had delivered a sealed envelope to the…
The document carried a title that sent a quiet tremor through the corridors of the Federal Chancellery in Bonn. It was a political testament, and it bore the signature of a man who had been dead for over a decade, a man whose very name was a ghost of the darkest chapter in German history: … Read more