WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:12.039 Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:15.000 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:19.640 going to bring you this week's episode of Cloak and Dagger. 4 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:22.160 But first, I do want to encourage you, if you're 5 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:27.239 enjoying the podcast, to follow us using your favorite podcast software. 6 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:30.960 And I also want to encourage you to become one 7 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:35.000 of our Patreon supporters at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. 8 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:39.159 This is our listener support and appreciation campaign, and I 9 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:45.200 truly appreciate everyone who supports the program and all the 10 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:48.240 things that we do here. Of course, Great Adventurers is 11 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:53.159 relatively new, but we've got more exciting things planning, and 12 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:57.240 we'll talk about some of our immediate plans after the episode. 13 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:02.679 But now, from July ninth, nineteen fifty, here is the trap. 14 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:08.280 Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the 15 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:12.120 enemy lines knowing you may never return alive. 16 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:22.319 What you have just heard is the question asked during 17 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:26.159 the war to agents of the OSS. Ordinary citizens who 18 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:28.079 do this question answered yes. 19 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:32.719 This is Cloak and Dagger. 20 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:56.200 Black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are the weapons of 21 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:01.359 the OSS. Today's story The trap about an OSS agent 22 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:04.640 who prevented an American advance onto German soil from turning 23 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:09.000 into a massacre is suggested by actual incidents recorded in 24 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:13.039 the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a 25 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:17.000 story that can now be told. 26 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:25.439 Did you ever notice the name Erwin signed in a 27 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:28.439 fancy flourish on the covers of those kid comic books 28 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:32.639 you know all about moonmen chasing the earthmen into the stratosphere. 29 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:36.719 Well that's me Irwin Hazen. I'm a little guy about 30 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:40.520 five foot four. Before the war, I loved flashy ties 31 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:45.280 and babies, girl babies, about twenty one. So what was 32 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:48.360 Erwin doing being an OSS spy and a German held 33 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:51.840 town in France after D Day? Listen, my children, and 34 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:58.240 you shall hear Sergeant Irwin Haysen reporting, sir, here are 35 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:00.319 those overlay maps you requested, Colonel. 36 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.879 Good Good, fast works hunt. 37 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:03.680 Thank you, sir. 38 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:07.639 I'll look them over now. In the meantime, I want 39 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:10.360 you to do something for me. Yes, sir, I've just 40 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.520 had word that one of our agents, Lieutenant Miller, who 41 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:17.919 was sent ahead and the Royere for Advanced Reconnaissance, has returned. 42 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:20.319 Lieutenant Miller, Yes, sir, I know him. 43 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:26.240 He's in that tavern about a mile from the headquarters, 44 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:32.840 getting very drunk. I can't understand. It doesn't sound like Miller. No, sir, 45 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:35.960 you should have reported immediately. I want you to go 46 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:42.400 down and bring him back to headquarters. Yes, colonel, right away, sir. Oh, hayzen, 47 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:49.919 I saw that cartoon you submitted to Yank. Oh they're 48 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:56.840 good good. Not very flattering of me, though. 49 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:59.680 No, sir, I'll love I'll get Lieutenant Miller for you. Colonel, sir. 50 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:10.919 Not all of the twelve thousand people working with the 51 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:15.159 OSS parachuted blind into enemy territory. Some of them stayed 52 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:18.519 in Washington making up secret codes. Some of them, like me, 53 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:22.079 sat behind a desk in France and drew maps. But 54 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:24.920 I was through sitting behind a desk. The minute I 55 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:30.800 walked into that tavern, Lieutenant Miller was slumped over the bar, 56 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:35.959 swaying back and forth, and he looked very drunk. Hey, lieutenant, 57 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:40.399 what's with you? Colonel wants you to report the headquarters 58 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:40.879 right away. 59 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:43.720 Oh that's you Erman. 60 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:46.240 Oh you get your ear chewed off of this? What's 61 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:48.560 the idea? Couldn't this wait till later? 62 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:54.639 I couldn't wait he didn't make it otherwise, I get 63 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:56.519 to the colonel, say. 64 00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:58.399 Bartender, how many has he had? 65 00:04:58.720 --> 00:04:59.279 Only two? 66 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:01.079 One? 67 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:01.319 Oh? 68 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:08.680 Yeah, Tell colonel couldn't make it otherwise. Then you came, 69 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:12.639 I can't make it now? Maybe what are you talking about? 70 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:20.439 Tell Colonel bir heavily fortified. One We thought I saw 71 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:25.079 myself eighty pieces of one hundred and five millimeters artillery 72 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:26.759 behind the lines. 73 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:29.759 Germans are digging in. 74 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:33.079 Well, come on back and telling me yourself. Hey, couldn't 75 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:34.160 you have celebrated later? 76 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:35.680 Made it this far? 77 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:40.879 Needed a drink the regular all the way. Tell colonel 78 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:45.920 we're heavenly fortified, heavily. 79 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:56.079 Miller, the lieutenant he is puss out. The lieutenant he 80 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:06.360 is dead. You see, Miller had been slumped over the bar. 81 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:09.040 Colonels I couldn't see those bullet wounds in his chest 82 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:09.959 until he fell over. 83 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:15.000 Germs must have caught on to him and given him 84 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:19.720 a chase. So wonder he got as far as he did. Sergeant, 85 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:23.600 you're sure about everything you told you, yes, sir, But 86 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:27.399 we were positive the Germans didn't have that much artillery 87 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:31.000 on the Seventh Army Front. If this is true, and 88 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:33.040 we had walked in not knowing him over the head 89 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:38.160 ah Man would have been massive. Thank you, Sergeant. You 90 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:40.480 may go now, Colonel. 91 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:43.879 If you're going to send another agent into that territory 92 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.319 to get a more complete picture of what's going on, 93 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:48.959 I'd like to volunteer. 94 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:51.000 And a mission like this cause for an agent who's 95 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:52.160 had experience along here. 96 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:54.800 Yeah, yeah, I know, but you see, Lieutenant Miller was 97 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.759 a friend of mine. Besides, I'm sick of spending the 98 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:01.040 war behind a drawing Boardgeant. Look, I can do it, Colonel. 99 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:03.959 I can speak French fluently, and I'll do more than 100 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:06.199 just look around and come back. I'll come back with 101 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:11.920 sketches and maps and diagrams everything you want to know. Look, Colonel, 102 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:14.079 the next time I send a cartoon to Yank, I'll 103 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:18.160 I'll make a very flattering one of you. Please, Colonel, 104 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:23.759 what do you say? The OSS placed me in the 105 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:26.279 custody of a French priest who had sneaked through the 106 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:30.240 lines from Briere to tell the Americans about underground activity there. 107 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:39.240 A few days later, the priest and I were on 108 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:42.040 the road thirty miles away from the American held town, 109 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:46.279 walking smack into enemy territory. The priest was in full 110 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:50.639 clerical garb me. I was dressed like a French peasant, and. 111 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:54.560 The German stupish me. Son it me do the talking. 112 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:56.639 Well, I hope we get away with it. 113 00:07:56.839 --> 00:08:00.680 You're not ary out of necessity. I have become a 114 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:04.079 debt at making up very convincing lie. 115 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:06.839 Yeah, but do you think that Germans don't believe this 116 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:07.839 phonny story? 117 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:12.759 What the reason will they have to disbelieve it? Besides 118 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:17.720 I am well known and respected in town. These Germans 119 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:21.160 have in of trouble now without staring at the antagonism 120 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:25.240 of the people by disciplining me for so small it is. 121 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:26.279 Well. 122 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:28.759 All I can say is I hope it works. 123 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:33.039 We have a chance to find out. Now there's the 124 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:40.240 town ah, and there is a welcoming committee. Let me 125 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:46.720 do the talking. Say while bonjour, I am father. 126 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:53.679 Robert, priest of the church in this town. And this man, friend, 127 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.279 if you're from this town, what are you doing behind 128 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:00.360 the border? Do you have permission? Let mess your papers? 129 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:00.960 Passes? 130 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:06.120 Most Unfortunately I did not wait to request a pass 131 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:10.919 our silence. He's a harpy harm with me to the 132 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:12.840 command on some of his week. 133 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:17.279 Pleasure come my friend mine as well. There's no way 134 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:18.480 back now, Father. 135 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:28.399 You have been given too much freedom in this town. 136 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:30.759 Father a there, this insolence is air. 137 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:35.759 It's too much with monsieur le commando, this poor lad. 138 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:41.120 You'll be as your name again, Francois, Francois V. Call 139 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:45.080 me by my title, Francois Here Commandan. 140 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:49.159 I'm going with your story, father abre. 141 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:53.240 It is a sad, sad story of a dying woman 142 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:56.759 and her last wish to see her neview this lad, 143 00:09:57.639 --> 00:10:02.080 last remaining member of her family, Her husband and two 144 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:04.720 sons were killed in the early days of the war. 145 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:08.759 You see, I have the holy oils with me to 146 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:11.720 give this poor woman the last sacrament. 147 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:14.480 And why did you not ask permission to get this bar? 148 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:19.000 I was afraid, Monsieur le Commandore, that by the time 149 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:23.320 the permission was granted, it might be too late, the 150 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:26.559 woman might die, So I slipped out. 151 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.720 When did you last see your aunt John? 152 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:32.919 Why? Over three years ago, her Commandan. 153 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:36.080 And this is most irregular. 154 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:38.919 I'm surely the request of a dying woman. 155 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:42.240 Well, I'll let you go this time. Father over there. 156 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:47.080 There's enough unresting this time without starting a tempest in 157 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:52.440 a teapot. One more question, Yes, monsieur, if you managed 158 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:55.279 to slip so of the lines going out, why is 159 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:57.799 it you did not attempt to sneak back into town 160 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:01.039 instead of walking boldly after the bar the line. 161 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:06.440 Sneak back into town, Why, Monsieur Commando, that would be 162 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:07.879 against regulations. 163 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:20.000 But I do not understand the father, Abella, how is 164 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:22.320 it that you did not try to sneak back in 165 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:22.879 the air? 166 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:29.440 Her American friend Irwin a battle rose, he can tell 167 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:29.799 you that. 168 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:32.840 Well, you see, Madame Jellette, this way, if the Germans 169 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:35.360 know I'm in town and supposedly staying with an ant, 170 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.120 I can move freely about without being suspected. 171 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.519 Oh, I see. 172 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:45.399 I see the time is late. I must go now, 173 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:54.039 Oh Joe, if monsieurle Commandant should inquire, I did administer 174 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:57.840 the last rights to you at the sight of your 175 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:03.799 dear nephew, brought life flowing back into your veins. 176 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:08.679 Of course, we do not have something to eat before 177 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:10.320 you go. I have not much to a. 178 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:17.559 Much work to do. By the way, at last meeting 179 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.399 of the underground went very well, What do you think? 180 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:21.519 Well? 181 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:23.799 Very well? 182 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:27.039 Indeed, well, I can't thank you enough, father for everything 183 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:27.440 you've done. 184 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:33.600 Oh my PEPs, we should meet again. Who knows if not, 185 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:37.480 can't be with you on your mission. Thank you, father, 186 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:43.320 and my son. Be very careful, Monsieur le Commando is 187 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:49.519 not very bright, but unfortunately he is not a complete idiot. 188 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:57.399 Why that was the last I saw, Father, Robert. It 189 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:00.159 happened like that all during the war. A member of 190 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:02.960 the underground would come along, get us over a rough spot, 191 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:06.879 and then disappear. But without all the help from all 192 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:09.320 the little people along the way, none of the work 193 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:12.919 of the OSS could have been done. They helped, they 194 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:13.679 wished us luck. 195 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:14.879 They left. 196 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:21.519 After a few days of staying with Madame Jeanette, I 197 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:24.480 almost felt that she was a relative. The old girl 198 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:29.480 practically adopted me Erwin h One King. 199 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:35.200 What fore, Robert tool they coming down? He does not alive? 200 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:36.320 Well? 201 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:37.279 What was that? 202 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:42.759 I did lose my husband and two sons in the early. 203 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:43.399 Days of the war. 204 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:49.120 Oh, I'm sorry, but. 205 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:52.039 It has been good these last days, cooking for you, 206 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:56.799 making up another bed as if I had my family again. 207 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:00.000 Are you being very careful? 208 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:00.919 Well? 209 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:05.159 I mind my own business. Look around the town. All 210 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:07.960 I can tell Arah, just a handful occupying it. Just 211 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:10.039 the way headquarters, though it looks like a pushover. 212 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:13.600 Perhaps it is perhaps the agent was here before he 213 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:14.399 was mistaken. 214 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:18.039 Miller, the Nazis didn't pump air into him for nothing. 215 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:22.799 He saw something, Madame Miche d here. 216 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:24.120 Let me feel your play the game. 217 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:26.559 Look what's the best way to get through the forest 218 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:28.879 to the river north of Brier. I'm going to take 219 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:29.679 a look around there. 220 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:35.600 Perhaps there may be something there. The guard is always posted. 221 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:39.639 I thought it was just to keep the townspeople from leaving. 222 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:42.720 But perhaps perhaps there's something else. 223 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:44.600 Is there a way past the guard? 224 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:50.120 Ah, I have lived here all my life. I know away. 225 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:55.200 I will show you, even take you partway myself. 226 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:01.559 The woods began aout one hundred yards back of Madame 227 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:04.720 Jeanette's little house, and earlier the next morning we started 228 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:08.720 through them. I followed her through the thick brambles, through 229 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:11.639 the narrow paths she knew so well, through the brush 230 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:13.759 and the high grass that moved gently in the wind. 231 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:18.039 Madame Jeanette's skirt caught on the brambles, and she stopped 232 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:20.399 just long enough to rip off that part of her 233 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:23.720 hem and leave it behind, swaying in the wind. Then 234 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:27.320 she moved on me right behind her. Maybe this would 235 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:29.919 turn into a wild goose chase. But I had a 236 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:34.919 hunch i'd find what I came for. Then we came 237 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:37.360 to a slight clearing. I will go. 238 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:40.960 Back now erin we term later the we we came. 239 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.399 You remember, yes, yes, I remember. 240 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:47.639 Go now along the outskirts of this little wood. You'll 241 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:50.399 see a hill. From there you will have a good 242 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:53.960 view of the river and anything. 243 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:56.720 That might be there. All right, I see you later, careful, 244 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:00.879 careful now. A minute afterwards, who was swallowed up in 245 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:05.279 the woods. A little while after that, I was on 246 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:07.519 top of that hill, flat on my stomach, under a 247 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:12.279 clump of bushes, looking down through strong binoculars. My hunter 248 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:15.639 was right. It was all there, and I began to 249 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:19.799 sketch it quickly but accurately. From somewhere the Nazis had 250 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:22.519 gotten reinforcements, and their high command had decided to make 251 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:25.120 a stand, dig in and hold there at the river. 252 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:29.080 There were heavy artillery positions all set up machine gun 253 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:32.240 and anti tank emplacements. There was barbed wire, lots of it. 254 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:35.399 There were anti tank obstacles and one hundred and five 255 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:38.879 millimeters artillery. Miller had seen all of it. There a 256 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:41.440 nice big booby trap all set for our men to 257 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:43.879 walk into. When they tried to advance north across the river. 258 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:47.480 I couldn't hear them, but I could see them, swarms 259 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:51.600 of German soldiers working hard, working fast, digging in, getting ready. 260 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:55.559 I took down everything I saw, and I had it complete, 261 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:58.000 except for the west bank of the river, near the bridge. 262 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:01.159 There were too many trees blocking my issue. I had 263 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:04.559 to get closer. By the time I got to the 264 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:06.839 bottom of the hill and crawled along through the brush 265 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:09.720 to the west bank. I didn't just see the Germans, 266 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:10.839 I could hear them as well. 267 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:19.599 Slip and lutman. See that more guards are posted at 268 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:21.799 the edge of the town. The commandant wants no one 269 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:23.240 snooping around here. 270 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:25.519 No one got to get through. 271 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:30.319 There were too many of them all around. I knew 272 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:32.200 it would be crazy to try to get any further 273 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.559 without a plan. I had to have time to think 274 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:38.279 about a way. I waited until they left. Then I 275 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:40.319 slipped back the way. I came up the hill and 276 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:43.559 through the woods to Madame Jeanette's. I went around the back, 277 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:46.240 so I didn't see the commandant until I walked in. 278 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:55.240 You are back, yes, I uh, Monsieur hair Commandant. I 279 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:58.720 have been waiting for well, is there something wrong? 280 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:01.480 No, no, oh, of course not once. 281 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:05.559 Well, I am here to talk with them as well 282 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:08.640 as you, m I believe Father Robert told me that 283 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:11.480 it's your name that is correct. It was through the 284 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:15.119 kindness and understanding of the German high command here that 285 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:18.759 you were allowed to see your sick aunt. You understand 286 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:22.319 that you're not. Oh, yes, I appreciate that it was irregular, 287 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:26.240 but we'll let you in. However, I am here to 288 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:28.960 tell you that you had better have no illusions about 289 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:32.680 leaving Brienn now going back to the American lines, to 290 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:33.559 your village there. 291 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:38.279 No, no, I have no wish to leave. Why you've 292 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:41.960 anticipated me, her, Commandant, I was going to request permission 293 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:44.240 to stay here with my aunt from now on. I 294 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:47.039 was in the square today looking for work. 295 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:51.880 And they are good, as long as you understand, madam, 296 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:53.880 if you will allow me to say. 297 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:56.079 So, you look very well. 298 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:58.799 Indeed, oh, she was very ill when I came. 299 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:02.240 Father Robert gave her last right media tirstpression. I'm not 300 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:02.880 talking to you. 301 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:07.640 My nephew is correct, But there are you here, Commandant. 302 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:11.400 I was very ill, but I'm very well now. 303 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:18.440 Well, that's all I wanted, how are going out? But 304 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:21.240 remember you are not to live for yea. 305 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:27.480 What the commandwan didn't know was that I had no 306 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:29.799 intention of leaving until I made the sketches of the 307 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:33.759 west bank of the river. Late that night, Madame Jeannette 308 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:36.680 helped you bury the plans and diagrams I had already grown. 309 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:40.240 You are right, I really do very busier by andy. 310 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:44.000 Rather than leave them inside, did you say. 311 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:48.759 Okay, that's deep enough. Now I put this rock on 312 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:54.519 top of them. There. That's done. Now you will go 313 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:56.960 back tomorrow. No, I've got to get a good look 314 00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:57.960 at the west bank of the river. 315 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:00.839 It is wise you did not try to we's further. 316 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:01.279 Ahead the day. 317 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:06.680 It would have been too dangerous. I know another. 318 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:08.920 Way through the forest, or tell me it is a 319 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:12.079 roundabout we but it will bring you closer into the. 320 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:14.839 West, or close enough at least so that you will 321 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:16.200 have a better view than before. 322 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:17.319 Ah. 323 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:19.559 But if there are so many troops, as you said, 324 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:21.079 do not get too close. 325 00:20:22.119 --> 00:20:24.519 When you have finished, come back to the woods the 326 00:20:24.599 --> 00:20:26.880 same way. I will be waiting. 327 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:34.920 I did exactly, she said, took the long way round 328 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:39.559 the cross little streams, watched for landmarks, dropped from high 329 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:42.480 rocks and landed on rough little paths that were hidden 330 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:47.039 by the brush. I did everything she said except one thing. 331 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:49.279 I got too close. 332 00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:51.960 Er relining those minds too far far? 333 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:55.920 What you're doing when these the fencers will be ready 334 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:56.880 for anything right now? 335 00:20:58.839 --> 00:21:02.000 I decided I better get up there. And as I started, 336 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:03.599 a twig under me. Snap. 337 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:05.240 What was that? 338 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:10.440 Did you hear something in the brush? M hmm, probably 339 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:15.000 some small animal in the forest. Oh see that happened. 340 00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:23.079 M there's nothing here helping make sure? 341 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:26.839 Remember the fragment of a woman's dress we found in 342 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:27.960 the woods this morning. 343 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:33.160 I was crouched down behind a rock and the German 344 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:35.640 lieutenant came so close I could have reached out and 345 00:21:35.680 --> 00:21:38.799 touched his mud kit boot. He stopped for a minute, 346 00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:41.119 and then he walked right past me. 347 00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:47.200 There was nothing there. It can't be too careful. I'm 348 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:47.440 with you. 349 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:48.920 There's something I want to tell you. 350 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:53.519 I had everything indicated on my sketches, Minefield's tank positions. 351 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:55.920 I knew everything about the west bank of the river. 352 00:21:55.960 --> 00:21:58.880 I wanted to know when the coast seemed clear. I 353 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:03.319 started back, but I didn't get very far. Here's your answer. 354 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:07.960 In the air, I took a couple of steps and 355 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:12.119 then slammed myself into a shallow ditch. I remember German 356 00:22:12.119 --> 00:22:14.920 bird guns and rifles cracking around me. A bullet went 357 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:16.640 through the hill of my hood and sent a shock 358 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:18.200 up my leg that made me wonder if it had 359 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:23.000 been blown off. And it was quiet, and I waited 360 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:25.799 for them to come and get me. It was all over. 361 00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:33.240 Perhaps that will convince you we mean what we say. 362 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:36.440 He Look, I tell you my name is Francois Chauva. 363 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:39.599 You know my aunt, She's What you're doing is a river. 364 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:42.960 I'm new in bri I don't know the forest of 365 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:44.359 the woods. I was lost. 366 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:47.599 Perhaps another taste of your fist. 367 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:54.480 Great, get them up, put them back on that chair. 368 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:57.799 Now listen to me. 369 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:01.759 Joever, whatever your name is, we found this sketch of 370 00:23:01.759 --> 00:23:03.400 the bridge at the west bank of the river in 371 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:03.839 your pocket. 372 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:05.599 Look, I don't know, I don't know anything. 373 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:08.319 That part of the sketch is quite complete, every detail. 374 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:12.240 The rest is diagrammed in lightly. There are the rest 375 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:14.480 of these plans, I don't know. Have you hidden them? 376 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:14.920 Where? 377 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:16.400 Have you given them to somebody? 378 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:16.680 Whom? 379 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:21.640 There are the rest of them? 380 00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:27.079 Kind of antvalt eh, but not right. Twisting his arm again. 381 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:33.039 Oh ah hah, yes, fainted. 382 00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:39.119 Have him thrown in Assel. I will question him more tomorrow. 383 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:51.200 That was the German way of questioning, beating you up, 384 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:54.000 twisting your arm. I was sure they had a lot 385 00:23:54.079 --> 00:23:56.319 more ways of questioning, but I didn't intend to stay 386 00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:59.039 and find out what they were. I had to figure 387 00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:02.559 out a way to escape. And then I noticed it. 388 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:05.680 The glass of the window in front of the bars 389 00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:09.279 had been shattered. I broke off a piece, and then 390 00:24:09.319 --> 00:24:12.759 I cut myself severely about the face. I guess it 391 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:15.400 doesn't sound pretty, and it didn't look very pretty, but 392 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:18.640 that was the effect I wanted. I heard the guard 393 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:21.240 coming back quickly. I threw myself on the floor in 394 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:22.839 front of the door, so that when the heavy door 395 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:24.400 was opened, it would crash into my head. 396 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:27.559 You come and don wants to see you. 397 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:31.000 No, what's the stars her? 398 00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:33.880 If I must get her? 399 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:39.359 My hair was matted with blood, and my cut up 400 00:24:39.400 --> 00:24:42.039 face looked pretty horrible. Not that the God was worried 401 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:44.000