Chapter 6 Multiple Personalities (June 2001; Frankfurt) The next place Kenzo Tenma appeared is said to be Frankfurt. He was following Officer Messner, one of the policemen who shot and killed Nina's foster parents, the Fortners, and Mauler the newswriter. Four months after the murders, Messner was dismissed from the Mannheim Police force for possession of drugs (making the news in the process), and for some reason had been hired by an ultra-right-wing organization. The leader of this organization was nicknamed the "Baby," a high-ranking member of the infamous Neo-Nazi "Pure German People's Party" and "Reform and Progress Party." Following the reunification of Germany, he was involved in "building communities of pure German peoples" in Dresden, but had returned to Frankfurt when the authorities chased him off. Communism and Nazism -- judging from World War Two, a pair of ideologies that were not meant to mix. Hitler preached anti-communism and tortured those communists he could catch. After the war, the communist countries actively purged Nazi sympathizers, and nowhere was this more fervently pursued than in East Germany. It is ironic that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was East Germany where Neo-Nazism most prominently surfaced. It seems to be true that chasing Nazi war criminals from office did little to alter the ideals or attitudes of the populace, especially when the Soviet puppet government maintained the same kind of militaristic system the Nazis already had in place. According to Inspector Lunge, Tenma successfully made contact with Messner and gained new information about Johan, or rather, learned that there was a Neo-Nazi group attempting to manipulate Johan. We must assume here that Tenma also succeeded in meeting Johan's younger sister Anna (Nina) as she tracked down her brother. Most likely, the ultra-
rightists hired Messner to help them catch Nina, in order to use her as bait to lure Johan in (also, one month later after meeting Tenma, Messner was stabbed to death in an incident involving drugs, and his partner in the Heidelberg Murders, Officer Muller, was shot and killed in Southern France two months afterward.) There were two curious events that occurred in Frankfurt during Tenma's stay -- In the first, a number of dead bodies were uncovered, one of which belonged to Gunther Geidlitz, a professor at Dresden University. He was a guest of the Baby's, and a verified Neo-Nazi supporter. The other was a failed attempt to burn down the Turkish quarter of town. In order to explain why the Neo-Nazis were so intent on chasing out the Turks, one must start with the actions of the West German government from 1961 onward in attracting Turkish immigrants for manual labor. When the economy soured and unemployment rose, the far right were quick to single out the Turks, who made up the largest percentage of Gastarbeiter (foreign workers). With the adverse economic effects of the German reunification, this anger only intensified. The attempt to burn down Frankfurt's Turkish neighborhood centered around Calvin Street ended in failure, but it was clearly the work of the Baby's organization. He managed to evade persecution on a technicality, but the local police officers firmly believe he was the one responsible. It is not clear how these two events are tied together with the NeoNazis attempt to lure Johan to them, but the planning of the Baby and Professor Geidlitz was clearly a failure, and Tenma once again found Johan slipping out of his grasp. However, Tenma did manage to find clues to the mystery of Johan. One of them was an encounter with General Wolf, the man who found Johan at the border between East Germany and Czechoslovakia and gave him his name (though
at this time, Tenma was not aware that Johan had any connection to Czechoslovakia). I inquired about General Wolf at the government registry office in Berlin, but the clerks could not find any files on him. The general himself probably had his records from the East German "Stasi" secret police erased, but it is simply unthinkable that there could be absolutely no trace of him whatsoever. I must assume that this is another case of Johan's powers at work. On the other hand, the BKA suspects that General Wolf was not a member of the secret police, but a former border patrol or special unit soldier -- likely one that took part in or advised the army in clandestine operations. The other clue Tenma found was a hand-written message from Johan at an abandoned warehouse in Romberg. "Help! The monster inside me is about to explode!" From this eerie message, Tenma began to suspect that Johan had dissociative identity disorder: multiple personalities. In order to unravel this mystery, he decided to visit his college classmate, Dr. Rudi Gillen, a psychiatrist and expert in the realm of criminal psychology.
