![]() ![]() Indeed, he sets up a network of cops and thieves that will smuggle Jews past the Gestapo, past Croatian Chetniks, through Macedonia and Thrace, and across the border to Edirne, Turkey - asylum in a neutral country. She asks for Zannis’ help - and he agrees. She is part of a network smuggling Jews out of Germany. The woman, Emilia Krebs, is a German Jew married to a high-ranking Wehrmacht officer. One day, Zannis gets a “see the woman” call. Had the son of an Athenian politician taken a diamond ring from a jeweler and ‘forgotten’ to pay for it? Call Zannis.” ![]() The policeman.” Indeed, he is known to all Salonika as “a senior police official.” Translation: Zannis’ “particular talent a kind of rough diplomacy, getting people to do what he wanted without hitting them.” And so: “Was the Belgian consul being blackmailed by a prostitute? Call Zannis. He looks like “maybe a tough guy, but your friend the tough guy. Zannis, who has just turned 40, favors black suits and wears steel-framed eyeglasses. ![]()
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