While in high school, Sorge's best friend was a Jewish boy named Franz, with whom he shared an interest in German history -- particularly Barbarossa and Bismarck. The friendship was abruptly broken off after Franz tried to kiss Ika, over the book about Barbarossa's incursion, full of pictures of heavily armored German knights on stout curtained horses.
 

 
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