Most international opinion was won, and any support for a countercoup dissipated, by the General Staff s calculated ' 'discovery'' of the death camps four days after the Putsch. The footage of Guderian's panzers smashing through the gates of Dachau, the horrified reactions of the soldiers to the grisly scene inside, sold the world on "the return of the Germany of Goethe, Schiller and Beethoven." Only the Russians didn't buy it. The war in the East ground on.
– Harrison, ibid., p. 74
Operations was quiet when John arrived-a paunchy, graying warrant officer, four young techs and a few guards. Up on the big board, Boston was a green island, surrounded by a line of red. Inside the green, another line of red divided three-quarters of the city from the remainder- turf. The yellow blip of an occasional plane or ship was the only movement.
John waved the warrant officer back to his chair. "It's ok, Mr. Blackstone, just familiarizing myself with Operations.
"The red is what?" he asked, pointing up at the board. "Perimeter sensors, Major."
A solid crimson ribbon sat alone above the warrant officer's right pocket: the First Day Ribbon. John wondered what irony had let Blackstone survive the Japan Invasion only to end up in UC.
"We monitor all activity along that perimeter, sir. We respond on anything BOSCO flags suspicious."