WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:10.960 Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from 2 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:15.439 boy S, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In 3 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:18.480 a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode 4 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:21.320 of Cloak and Dagger. But first I want to encourage you. 5 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:25.719 If you're enjoying this podcast, please follow us using your 6 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:29.719 favorite podcast software. And if you're listening on the Great 7 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:33.759 Detectors podcast, please subscribe to the Great Adventurers of Old 8 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:39.000 Time Radio. Our listener support and appreciation campaign concludes today. 9 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:42.439 You can become one of our Patreon supporters over at 10 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:48.920 Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Now from July thirtieth, 11 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:53.920 nineteen fifty, here is swastika on the windmill. 12 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:59.479 Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the 13 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:02.799 enemy linees knowing you may never return alive. 14 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.239 What you have just heard is the question asked during 15 00:01:13.239 --> 00:01:16.760 the war to agents of the OSS ordinary citizens who 16 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:22.799 to this question answered yes. This is Cloak and Dagger, 17 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:44.920 Black warfare, espionage, international entrigue. These are the weapons of 18 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:49.159 the OSS. In today's adventure, the Swastika on the Windmill. 19 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:52.799 The role of Paul halfand an OSS agent in Holland, 20 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:56.680 is played by Lestremaine The story is suggested by actual 21 00:01:56.719 --> 00:01:59.599 incidents recorded in the Washington files of the Office of 22 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:03.959 Strategic Services, a story that can now be told. 23 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:08.039 My mouth was as dry as ashes. The palms of 24 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:11.479 my hands were ringing wet. My revolver was drawn and 25 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:16.360 I moved slowly, slowly along the dark hall. Everything I 26 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:19.159 had been taught led up to this moment. 27 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:21.879 Boards under my feet heated. 28 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:24.439 For a terrifying moment, I almost lost my balance and 29 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:29.280 fell backwards. Something was ahead of me in a room 30 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.759 along that dark passage. I sensed it more than anything else. 31 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:37.159 Then I heard it on my half man. I stopped 32 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:39.199 breathing until I had passed that room, and the voices 33 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:43.199 of the hidden Germans almost slid past them. 34 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:44.719 To the end of the corridor. 35 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:48.879 There was a Nazi stormtrooper in uniform right in front 36 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:49.719 of me, blocking the exit. 37 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:54.599 Well, fire, fire, fire again, it'd work, Paul. 38 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:57.240 Well, that's it. You passed the test. Now the colonel 39 00:02:57.240 --> 00:02:57.840 wants to see you. 40 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:06.759 What I had just come through was a cleverly designed 41 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:10.360 scarehouse that rivaled any Coney Island chamber of horrors for 42 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:13.360 one a minute thrills. This was part of the training 43 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:15.879 of an OSS agent and it took place less than 44 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:18.639 an hour's ride from Washington, d C. We turned how 45 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:21.680 far at the present time we have no information and 46 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:25.120 no way of getting information on the disposition and plans 47 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:29.400 of German troops and Netherlands. We think they're up to something. 48 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:33.560 Well, no what. Now you'll be flown to England and 49 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:35.800 from there a submarine will take you to the coast 50 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:36.439 of Holland. 51 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:41.039 The coast of Holland to me, Holland was that little 52 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:44.520 country where my uncle Brohm lived, where I visited when 53 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:48.159 I was twelve, where the windmills were now under the 54 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:55.879 shadow of the swastika. I guess we can surface about here. 55 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:58.000 There's mac on Holland. I want to take a look 56 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:02.439 with tenthalphon thanks command. Spilling through the periscope of the 57 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:05.280 submarine Tuna and I could see a windmill on the 58 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:09.120 flat lowland of the Netherlands. I couldn't see the swastika, 59 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:12.800 but I knew it was there. The pressure gage showed 60 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:14.639 twenty feet of salt water above us. 61 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:24.879 Take her up her out o an hatch. 62 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:32.839 We climbed the ladder through the hatch, where an inflated 63 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:38.759 rubber boat was waiting to take me to shore. I'm 64 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:41.360 only a couple of yards from shore. I can get 65 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:46.600 out here. Hand me that rucksack. Please here you are, sir? 66 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:49.560 Have you fought to go from here? It's only about 67 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:52.759 five miles from Macum to Bolsward, where my uncle lives. 68 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:56.519 I can make it before the sun comes up. Goodbye 69 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:00.160 and thanks, good luck, good Luck's. 70 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:12.240 So when you rang the bell at Sanna Paul, I 71 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:15.199 jumped for my bed the devil, I said, it's the 72 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.639 guest tap. They finally put two and two together and 73 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:20.639 connected me with the underground. 74 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:24.680 Hush, brahm, hush, God gave your tongue. Must you use 75 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:25.439 it so loosely? 76 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:29.279 I'm afraid my new aunt Hilda doesn't trust me completely. 77 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:31.240 I trust no one. 78 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.480 Oh, this is poor. 79 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:37.839 How often have I spoken to you of the times 80 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:40.199 he came here when he was how old? 81 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:41.360 Poor? Twelve? 82 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:46.079 Uncle Brown, Yes, twelve and so proper, So collect a 83 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:50.079 miniature model of propriety. Well, from the looks of it, 84 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:53.800 you've grown, but you haven't changed much. Still proper is 85 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:54.800 the devil. 86 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:57.319 The result of my strict Quaker upbringing. 87 00:05:57.399 --> 00:05:57.879 Uncle Brohn. 88 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:01.240 Remember we were both taught number two drink or smoke 89 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:05.279 or lie or or swear, Uncle Brom. 90 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:09.600 Yes, how long will you stay in Holland? 91 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:12.240 Only long enough to contact the leader of the underground 92 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:13.439 and get the information I'm after? 93 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:19.360 I see? Tell me, why should we believe that you 94 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:22.560 are an allied spy? Answer me? 95 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:25.439 Sure you don't expect me to carry proof about me 96 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:27.800 that I'm a spy in case the Germans find me? 97 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:28.639 Then how do we know? 98 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.480 That's enough? At the devil, I say, and here know 99 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:32.199 more of this dog? 100 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:39.160 All right, Brown, it will be as you say, and 101 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:40.399 on your conscience. 102 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:45.160 Your your wife doesn't trust me. 103 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:49.639 You were surprised to know it, doubt to find you 104 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.079 Aunt Katrina dead and I remarried. 105 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:57.600 Yes, yes I was, Uncle Brom. I was lonesome. 106 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:00.480 It's not good for the men to live by himself. 107 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:04.639 And she is a good woman, but she doesn't trust me. 108 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:08.319 She has her reasons. There was some men in these 109 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:12.360 parts not long ago. He passed himself officer British agent, 110 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:16.920 gained the confidence of some of the Undergrund. Then he 111 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:21.759 turned them over to the Gestapo. I see he as 112 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:24.240 family was among those executed. 113 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:31.720 You understand now, uncle problem. You haven't seen me or 114 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:33.279 heard from me since I was a boy. You don't 115 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:35.120 know where I've been during those years in between. You 116 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:38.360 don't know what my loyalties are. Do you trust me? 117 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:42.720 Tomorrow? I may take steps to put you in contact 118 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:47.800 with Hans spoke in Luardin, the leader of the Dutch underground. 119 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:54.920 When I awoke a few hours later, it was about 120 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:59.199 ten o'clock. Through the window of a spare room that 121 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:01.319 Aunt held her ma up for me, I could see 122 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:04.120 the neat little milk carts joling over the Christine and 123 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:08.120 the cobblestones, and I could see the endless stream of bicycles, 124 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:12.920 and here and there a German soldier in uniform, like 125 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:16.199 a blot on the landscape. 126 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:20.560 I'm afraid the breakfast is not assumptuous. 127 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:21.879 It as what's in the old days. 128 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:25.560 Poor do not apologize for what we cannot change. 129 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:31.120 Aunt Hilda is right. It was very good. The Rogua 130 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:34.240 Brood was just as I remembered it. And these current bunds, 131 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:36.360 these Creanton brutes, are wonderful. 132 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:40.840 I will leave you. I have a house to clean. 133 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:42.639 You're still suspicious of me? 134 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:45.639 Have I any reason not to be it enough? 135 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.279 Paul is my sister's son. I will stake my own 136 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:51.559 life's blood that he is to be trusted. Let us 137 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:57.639 hope you do not have to, Aunt Hilda. Look this pistol, 138 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:03.799 I'm giving it to you. It's the only one I have, the. 139 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:07.360 Only one you have, and you give it to me. 140 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:08.519 Yeah. 141 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:12.879 I put myself at your mercy. If at any time 142 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:15.039 you have proof even the slightest that I'm not what 143 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.519 I claim to be, take my own gun and turn. 144 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:17.679 It on me. 145 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:25.039 I will take your gun and take you at your word. 146 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:32.240 That should convince her. Paul, you are what you say, 147 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:34.399 I hope. 148 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:39.200 So now, what about this hunts Buck? How can I 149 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:40.000 get in touch with him? 150 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:43.799 I will arrange for a meeting between you halfway at 151 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:47.039 the Handling in five days from now, to give him 152 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:48.960 time to collect the information. 153 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:49.720 You are after. 154 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:57.200 The days until Thursday when I was supposed to meet 155 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:01.200 haunts Buck past slowly, but they weren't wasted. I set 156 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:03.000 up a short wave radio and a wine cellar read 157 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.600 in the living room. I had long talks with Uncle Brahm, 158 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:08.200 and I went out of my way to win over 159 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:13.360 Aunt Hilda. Are you sure there's nothing I can do 160 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:14.519 to help you with dinner? 161 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:15.080 Aunt Hilda? 162 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:18.559 Nothing? Thank you? 163 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:22.039 Oh, it's. 164 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:26.159 It's still raining one need not be. 165 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:27.320 Too clever to see that. 166 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:36.360 In Holland it seems always to be raining now, rain, 167 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:40.440 mud and despair. 168 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:45.320 I remember when I came here years ago, it was winter. 169 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:47.960 I was in time for the skaters. 170 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:51.879 Races, Yeah, skaters races. 171 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:52.879 And the booths. 172 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:56.559 Remember the little booths that sold chocolate and milk cooked 173 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:59.799 with aniseed, and the little cakes, all the varieties of gingerbread. 174 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:01.720 How I love them. 175 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:02.960 Hand me the spoon. 176 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:07.120 Here here you are. 177 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:15.720 Thank you. Tell me about America. What is it like? 178 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:21.240 It's too large to describe in a sentence, or too 179 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:23.720 When the war is over, you must come visitors. 180 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:26.679 When the war is over. 181 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:34.639 Well, little can't last forever, and America is helping. And 182 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:38.120 remember our leader, President Roosevelt, is himself of Dutch ancestry. 183 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:48.200 Tomorrow, tomorrow, perhaps I will make you a gingerbread cake. 184 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:01.399 Yes, I wonder over slowly. And on Thursday, when I 185 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:03.519 left for Harlingen, she said good bye to me. 186 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:05.519 At the door with uncle Brom. 187 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:11.080 You know where to meet him, Paul, you have everything clear? 188 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:14.039 Yeah, everything, uncle Brahm. 189 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:17.039 I'm to meet him beside the monument of the Stone 190 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:19.879 Man on the North Sea Dikes. I'll be nodding and 191 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:23.679 unknotting a piece of string so he'll know me. Good good. 192 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:26.559 We will see you later to night. 193 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:29.440 Then, yeah, pull. 194 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:35.720 Here. This is for you in case you should have 195 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:37.919 need of it. 196 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:41.360 My pistol take it back. 197 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:59.480 Thank you, Thank you, Aunt Hulda Kurtain Morgan, Gourden Morgan. 198 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:04.240 This habit you have of nothing and non nothing string? 199 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:06.679 Is it not a waste of time? 200 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:14.480 Nothing is a waste if it serves a purpose? Here buck, yeah, right. 201 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:18.519 An elephant. We may this blend the information the habit? 202 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:18.840 Yeah? 203 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:22.399 Where where in my head? You will have to memorize 204 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:24.000 it as I give it to you. I could not 205 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:27.039 take a chance of writing anything down. I'll remember then, 206 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:32.039 remember it and use it well. There are forty thousand 207 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:35.799 Nazi troops in Holland and Belgium. These troops will be 208 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.360 on the move within two weeks. Where they're going northern Italy. 209 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:42.639 They will be used to cut off the American advance there. 210 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:47.039 The colonel did suspect the worst. Thank you, thank you. 211 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:48.600 I'll radio this out tonight. 212 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:51.639 It is appropriate, is it not for us to meet 213 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:53.759 under the statue of the Stoneman. 214 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:58.519 See the inscription terminus. 215 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:02.840 It means thus far and no farther a threat to 216 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:04.759 the sea that is held back by the. 217 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:10.080 Dykes thus far, and no farther a threat also to 218 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:10.639 the Nazis. 219 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:15.919 Yeah you understand me, Well remember me to your uncle 220 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:18.399 and goodbye for now. 221 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:33.799 Her book is in constant danger of discovery by the Gestapo, Paul. 222 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:37.039 It's why he could not take a chance and write 223 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.879 that information down for you. It wasn't necessary of a brom. 224 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:42.440 He passed it from his head to mine. 225 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:44.639 When will you radio it to London? 226 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:48.840 After midnight? I think I can start now. What's that? 227 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:50.559 Ah? 228 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:58.360 Stopping in front of the house? Men getting out so late? 229 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:01.399 Who are there? You know them? 230 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:03.279 No? I don't. 231 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:05.480 I'm afraid. I'm afraid. 232 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:07.360 It was like this once before, when I came to 233 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:11.320 get my family, Paul. We were turned in in by 234 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.039 someone who pretended to be a friend. 235 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:14.840 Do you believe? 236 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:16.240 I don't know. I don't know what to believe. 237 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:25.559 I'll answer it, Helderman. Yeah, we have business with you. 238 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:31.519 I mean, this is my wife and my nephew. Call 239 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:33.480 healthphond you nephew. 240 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:37.039 Max. Take a good look at him, would you say? 241 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:39.639 Looks as if he's to be trusted. I never truch 242 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:41.080 the man who looks so innocent. 243 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:43.960 What are you talking about? Who are you? 244 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.200 Do not be so suspicious. We are from hans Bock. 245 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:49.279 We're members of the underground, and that ground. 246 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:54.879 I was not conscious there was an underground in the Netherlands. 247 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:58.519 What do you want with us? You're being very careful. 248 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:02.559 I can see that, Alderman, and that's good. Perhaps this 249 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:06.200 will prove who we are. Would you not say? That 250 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:07.519 is hairbox own signature? 251 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:12.519 Yeah, that is He's all right, I know it well convinced. 252 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:15.360 Now read it aloud, Oka bron Let me read it. 253 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:20.759 Poor every reason to distrust man you sent me today? 254 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:24.639 Show proof who he is, or turn him over to 255 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:28.240 these men for underground execution. 256 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:33.200 But this is ridiculous. I do not understand. Or hair 257 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:35.039 Box seemed to trust me well enough this afternoon. 258 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:36.679 And have here was a German spy, a traitor, a 259 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:39.440 mid he is I do not believe that, not Paul. 260 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:41.639 He is not the spy, not for the Germans. 261 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.080 You want proof, I will give you proof. 262 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:50.919 See here in the vine set of it. This is 263 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:53.919 his short wave radio. He was going to send the 264 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.519 message tonight. He is a friend. Here is an ally. 265 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:02.120 He's a member of the American oass. Don't you believe me? 266 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:11.000 M mm hmmm, that is the matter. We relieve you 267 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:12.960 well enough. Thank you for giving us proof of what 268 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:13.720 we suspected. 269 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:14.279 What's this? 270 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:18.519 Shall I shut my bad Take a good look. 271 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:20.960 Sculling cossbones. 272 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:24.440 We've been trailing her bok, but we had no definite 273 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:27.599 proof that he was connected with the underground. We only suspected. 274 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:31.160 And today we saw him meet your nephew here on 275 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:32.359 the North Sea dykes. 276 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:33.160 Where did you fit? 277 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:33.880 Until thinking? 278 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:35.720 But if we arrested them then and there we might 279 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:38.559 get nothing from them. So we waited. We arrested her book, 280 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:41.799 and we found a paper with his signature on it. 281 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:44.400 That note you showed us what was forged. 282 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:46.559 Quite right, note was forged. 283 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:51.920 No longer I have made my way to the kitchen door. 284 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:57.000 You have killed him right again? And then around yours 285 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:00.960 to your husband for supplying, and upstairs, let's get. 286 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:05.119 Happy here, all right? Right? What I haven't no worse 287 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:05.480 than you? 288 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:09.240 In a flood of memory, it came back chamber of horrors, 289 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:12.279 and hours drive from Washington, my mouth was dry as ashes, 290 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:14.799 and the palms of my hands were ringing wet. Along 291 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:18.319 the dark hole, I revolver drawn everything I had been 292 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:20.960 taught led up to this, this momentary. 293 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:25.200 Have you covered from both sides? Drop your gun? Will fire, fire, 294 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:28.960 fire again into the darkness. This time, there was no 295 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:31.599 instructor to say good work, Paul. There was just a 296 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:33.880 gun in my back and the leader of the Gestapo 297 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:34.440 to say. 298 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:44.440 You are on the race, Lieutenant Hall, how long do 299 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:45.759 you think you can hold out? 300 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:50.720 We have ways of making you talk. No, no, must 301 00:18:50.720 --> 00:19:01.400 reconvince you more. Sergeants come, yeah, well, perhaps really have better? 302 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:04.839 Lucky we question your aunt so I don't get killed 303 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:05.559 and bring her here. 304 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:07.599 No, no, no, don't do that letter alone. 305 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:11.200 Simply because you requested, Sergeant, do as I say. 306 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:15.240 You'll see how long she holds out. She is absolute. 307 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:18.119 We'll have a shot and you will be a witness. 308 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:26.359 This amusing. 309 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:30.000 I know when I'm beaten. Don't bother the old lady. 310 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:30.960 You're the old man either. 311 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:32.160 What are you saying? 312 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:32.400 Well? 313 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:34.839 I thought I could hold out. I can see now 314 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:37.559 there's no point in holding out. You won. What more 315 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:38.279 is there to say? 316 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:42.759 If you're just starling for time, not stalling hair, Commander, 317 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:46.240 I'll prove it. I'll confess everything, tell you everything you 318 00:19:46.279 --> 00:19:50.799 want to know. Wow, you are becoming smart, and so 319 00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:54.480 I told them everything they wanted to know. General Donovan 320 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:58.359 HiT's the OSS in Washington. The OSS is part of 321 00:19:58.359 --> 00:20:02.559 the American State Department. The Minister of Finance in Britain 322 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:04.559 is also head of the British Secret Intelligence. 323 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:07.240 Go ahead, Lieutenant Harfund, we're listening, Corpora, take this down. 324 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:15.200 I gave them a mixture of fact and fantasy that 325 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:19.119 would have done the German propaganda ministry pride. The true 326 00:20:19.160 --> 00:20:22.640 facts I told them Mine knew they already knew the rest. 327 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:25.039 They seem to accept the face value, and so I 328 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:29.799 kept my story with a real whapper. You taking all 329 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:33.240 this down, Corporal, We'll take this down with a red pencil. 330 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:36.319 An invasion of North Holland is part of the Allied plan. 331 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:38.519 What the invasion will be made in the eastern area 332 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:40.599 of Friesland on the Dutch North Sea coast. 333 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:45.799 You are lying to us, We'll see if you know 334 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:51.240 you're beaten, perhaps have been on the wrong side. Lieutenant 335 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:57.400 hart Fund, you've that up radio. I think you ought 336 00:20:57.400 --> 00:20:59.240 to use it tonight. 337 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:11.160 Time is now twenty three hundred, twenty three hundred. Paul 338 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:14.200 Hall Fan calling headquarters. Can you hear me over? 339 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:15.920 OSS? 340 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:18.960 Headquarters to Paul Halfon, you're coming in clear. 341 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:22.279 I've been waiting for your message, Paul, good to hear 342 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:22.759 your voice. 343 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:25.160 Why don't you say there's a gun in your back? 344 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:27.000 I could see it's going to take a lot to 345 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:32.000 convince you. Paul hall Fon the headquarters, listen, listen carefully. 346 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:35.079 It's stinking weather for a drop, but I've got to 347 00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:37.599 have supplies. It's darned important. 348 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:40.200 Over headquarters to. 349 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:43.559 Halfan, would you mind repeating that so we're sure? 350 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:45.039 Repeat? 351 00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:45.400 Please? 352 00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:46.440 Over? 353 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:49.480 What the bevil's the matter? You said you were getting 354 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:52.119 don good reception. I said, the weather's lousy, but it's 355 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:54.880 darned important that I get a supply drop at designated 356 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:56.200 point tomorrow night. 357 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:02.119 Can't make it any darn clearer than that. Over, Okay, okay, Paul, 358 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:04.279 we get it. 359 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:04.920 It's done. 360 00:22:04.920 --> 00:22:07.440 Clear, Now you'll get your supply drop. 361 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:09.599 Good night, over and out. 362 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.000 You heard it yourself, The drop will be made. Are 363 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:18.200 you beginning to be convinced of my sincerity? 364 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:24.000 Were you nervous? Lieutenant? Why do you say that? 365 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:26.680 I never heard you use such language before. 366 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:28.839 Oh? 367 00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:32.599 I expect to get over my nervousness after I've broadcast 368 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:39.319 many of these radio messages for you, Commander Brandt. After 369 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:44.359 that they drove me back to the jail. Commander Brandt 370 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:47.599 of the Gestapo had never heard me use such language before, 371 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:52.160 and neither had oss headquarters in the Army. They used 372 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:54.279 to make fun of me because of my proper speech. 373 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:57.079 I gambled on the chance that the radio operator who 374 00:22:57.160 --> 00:23:00.799 knew me would detect something odd about my speech. When 375 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:03.599 he answered back the same way, I knew he understood 376 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:05.920 I was a prisoner of the Germans and that the 377 00:23:05.960 --> 00:23:11.440 supply drop would probably save my neck. I didn't sleep 378 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:14.799 that night, and I didn't really take a deep breath 379 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:17.400 until eleven o'clock the next morning. 380 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:22.759 Good Morgan, looking, would you care perhaps for the piece 381 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:25.759 of chocolate an American cigarette? 382 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:37.720 I knew the drop had been successful. They sent us 383 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:42.039 home Uncle Brahm, ant Hilda and me, but we brought 384 00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:45.000 a border with us, in the person of Commander Brandt. 385 00:23:46.599 --> 00:23:51.240 Mouse was different now. Aunt Hilda prepared meals silently. Uncle 386 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:55.720 Bram smoked his pipe and looked at me wondering. And 387 00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:57.440 twice a week they sat in the living room and 388 00:23:57.480 --> 00:24:01.160 watched and listened as Commander brand and iact. It always has. 389 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:05.680 Headquarters Ohs as headquarters to Paul Alvin. 390 00:24:06.519 --> 00:24:07.400 This is important. 391 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:13.119 Four and twenty blackbirds are coming through the rye storm 392 00:24:13.160 --> 00:24:14.279 clouds overhead. 393 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:16.759 Take in your washing. 394 00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:19.119 Good night, horn out. 395 00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:21.799 What did that mean? 396 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:24.519 Fifteen thousand more Allied troops are added to preparations for 397 00:24:24.599 --> 00:24:28.759 the invasion of Holland, and we will. 398 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:31.720 Rush twenty thousand more German troops to the Dutch North 399 00:24:31.759 --> 00:24:32.440 Sea coast. 400 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:35.200 Already we have forty thousand troops waiting there. 401 00:24:35.559 --> 00:24:39.480