As scary a vision of society as you're ever likely to read

Now the cards attacking the Fuhrer are all over Berlin - 44 drops, anyway - and the Gestapo is on the case. It's taken them 6 months, no arrests. And we go inside the Gestapo hq where a superior officer is putting the squeeze on the detective - the detective says they have to be patient and meticulous, but the senior officer says they have to make an arrest, that's an order - he's worried about the higher ups, as is everyone. The entire society is a horror show, operating entirely on the basis of fear. It's much easier to go along and not challenge anything and hope that you'll never be noticed. So far, the Quangels have avoided detection - and almost all of their cards are turned into the authorities. We see - following the first man to find one of the cards - that they're like poison, nobody wants to touch them for fear they'll be implicated. First one found by an actor who played along with Goebels, but is now "black listed." He's afraid the card might ruin him. Later, we see the Gestap about to make an arrest - someone we know is the wrong guy because we've already crossed paths with him, Enno, the guy who broke into Frau Rosenthal's flat, married to the postal worker who hates the Nazis. He was spotted acting suspiciously near one of the drops - he'd been trying to get a doctor's order to cover for his cutting work. Lots of suspicion will surround him, and we know he'll talk - probably implicating his wife and who knows how many others. This is as scary a vision of society as you're ever likely to read, and all told so subtly, with no stylistic flashes whatever.