All Chapters of CHRYSANTHEMUM: Prisoners of war: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

"They smell even worse when they burn," mumbling with a mouthful of goat's meat from the hot stew they were having for lunch. "Suggest the fuehrer a better way to dispose of them if it bothers you that much." His wife said in a calming voice pouring a bottle of wine into his cup.  Hannele couldn't stand it anymore. It made her sick in the stomach. Almost vomiting on the dining table, the girl excused herself and rushed to her room. "I'm not fond of this attitude of hers, tomorrow she'll accompany me to the camp, tomorrow her training begins," Aldous added. "Take it easy on the child, Aldous, you know she misses the city, she had never stepped foot out of this house for a month

Hannele arrived home after spending the afternoon with Budo. To her surprise, there was a red dress with white daisy prints laid on her bed, beside it was a black thigh-high pantyhose and on the floor below the dress was a pair of black high-heeled shoes as she entered her room. Her mother instantly knocked on the door when the word got to her that Hannele was home from the camp. "I prepared this for you, my dear," Editha said entering her daughter's room in excitement. "You didn't have to, I figured I'm not going anyway," she said, laying down pushing the dress to the side of the bed. "Hannele obey your father at once so he can stop blubbering about Mikhail." "I promise as

Berlin Germany 1929Wagner ResidenceHannele at a young age had already experienced mental struggles.Aldous had already started his military career. One day while on duty as a royal guard, Editha went on a shopping spree with two of her maids, spending her parents' riches and left Hannele unattended in their family mansion; the child was just seven years old at the time.The girl just got out of her slumber leaving her bedroom and was roaming around their three-story mansion. She entertained herself by playing with her dolls, turning on the radio, and dancing to the ballroom songs that were playing.

While sitting on the dining table completely in shock Editha excused herself and went to the master's bedroom she then rushed to the bathroom, leaving everyone wondering what was going on with her. She took three tablets of Chloral hydrate or what we simply pop pills today as sleeping tablets. Chloral hydrate was the first synthetically produced sedative-hypnotic drug, was commonly used in the late 19th century to treat insomnia, and was still occasionally used to reduce anxiety or produce sleep before surgery. Editha had always kept a bottle of this drug in her medicine cabinet, in case of an emergency since Hannele got out of the hospital in case a time like this came where she could simply drug her daughter to avoid the violent outbursts and this night for her was an emergency.

Berlin Germany, 1923. Amidst the rule of Friedrich Ebert and Germany suffering through economic hardships, rebellions, and political assassinations, serving in the German military was the twenty-nine-year-old bachelor Aldous Wagner newly promoted as SS-Senior assault leader (First lieutenant). One night at the same old beer bar he was going to since he joined the military, Adolf Hitler was giving one of his speeches where the Nazi leader bewitched his audiences and promised the people that his empire would reign for a thousand years. The event became the talk of the night and the bar was jam-packed of his supporters. The young man arrived dressed in complete uniform introducing himself to the crowd offering his hand to the men who were waiting for the fuehrer to start his speech. from a distance he then saw a man chugging a pint of beer sited at the front row, on his right was a young woman wearing a red beret with long black curly hair covering the side of h