How is Death affected by Michael Holtzapfel’s death ? How does he explain his death?

Michael Holtzapfel's funeral takes place in July. The Allies bomb Hamburg, killing 45,000. Death remarks that the Germans "were starting to pay in earnest," and that despite Germany's military setbacks, Hitler had not been slackening off "in terms of war-making" and the extermination of the Jews.

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