Hiding between the rain drops.

Hiding between the rain drops.

"Taken as a whole, Koeppen's activities during World War II seem a canny exercise in self-sabotage that was also self-defense. The scripts he wrote and helped to write for UFA and Bavaria Filmkunst were almost never produced, but his employment got him cover...An Allied bombing run in Berlin gave him the opportunity to essentially fake his own death, and he spent the last years of the war underground, or at least hiding out in a ramshackle hotel…