Prelude: The sphinx

Part I. Spring 1944: everything all at once

Tehran

"I want to sleep and sleep twelve hours a day."

Escape

Escape, part two

"This is the year 1944"

"Could we be granted victory this year, 1944?"

Part II. The road to 1944

Beginnings

Mills of the gods

Giant cemeteries

Riegner

1943

"The acquiescence of this government in the murder of Jews"

Part III. The fateful decision

Trapped between knowing and not knowing

The wind and the silence

Part IV. 1945

Reckoning.