Lately the commandant speaks more and more intimately of the fuhrer and the latest thing- prayers, petroleum, loyalty- that he requires. The fuhrer requires trustworthiness, electricity, boot leather. Werner is beginning to see, approaching his sixteenth birthday, that what the fuhrer really requires is boys. Great rows of them walking to the conveyor belt to climb on. Give up cream for the fuhrer, sleep for the fuhrer, aluminum for the fuhrer. Give up Reinhard Wohlmann's father and Karl Westerholzer's father and Martin Burkhard's father.