"I'm in..." " Thanks" " It was a damn good try" " Hello" " Pat got the message through to me" " God!" " Who from?" " Who from?" " Everybody in Germany knows what directory 24 is" " Around" " Who from?" " Just around where did you get your information?" " Where did you get the information?" " I tried to warn a friend of mine in America" " You hoped to warn the American government and through them the Russians" " Did you?" " I know what directive number 24 is" " Hitlers code name for attack on Russia this year" " Concentration of German troops in Rumania and Poland is for Barbarossa but they may have postphoned them" " Yes." "It's all here in the same code in your manuscript" " You know what directive nbr 24 is?" " number 24" " has- already- issued- directive" " general staff Wehrmacht" " objections in spite taking every ninth letter in the manuscript" "E" "R" Hitler Thank you" "T" "L" " " H" " I" " Let's look at every ninth letter that's enogh chivalry as it may seem flooding unending American arms into England" " Please!" "read the first sentence from chapter four" " What's that got to do with my book?" "you did at high school with your friend Sandy" " That's fascinating." "I never took mathematics but only with the figure nine" " The multiple always adds up to the original factor thank you" " Four and five" " Two and seven" " If you add one and eight" " That's something very curious about these figures." " Seven times nine" " Five times nine three times nine" " What?" " What are twice nine?" " What are twice nine?" "the whole book would be meaningless without it" " Our other departments suggested an altogether different interpretation that's what I thought too the loudest and most representative my interpretation was that the lowest common denominator of public opinion" " Used in America civics classes" " What does it mean?" " What that is ..it's ... a jargong it could be a little obscure to a German that's a curious phrase" "Lies in the fact that the multiple always adds up to the original factor as they taught us in high school" "But I hope that you'll understand the truth what I'm particulary trying to say in chapter 4" " You know that too" " Yes" "I know it goes against majority opinion in the United States" " Knowing your friend's political views in the past" " I'm just guessing" " Yes" "I know that most of it is contra to your own opinion" " That's a contraction for Alexander" " Yes" " " Dear Sandy" " It puzzled me this letter the one about Spain he's an old schoolfriend of yours I see." " This letter attached to the manuscript" " Maybe I can answer some of them for you" " Yes... questions that puzzled me about the manuscript" " I thought you had the authority to send it on yourself" " Yes" " I felt it deserved careful studying by all our departments before sending it to America" " I was hoping it'd be off to the publisher by now" " You've spent enough time on it" " We've several type written copies made" " No thanks." " I've read your manuscript" " Sit down." "that's all" " Come and congratulate Carrington finishing his book" "Gestapo!" " Simon!" " Let's vote!" "All those in favour" " All right!" "Let's take a vote on it!" " But there's no evidence!" " Make him run the gauntlet" " It's now a question of standing up for anybody." "There's no evidence at all that Carrington..." " We all know why Phil has been given..." " Why are you standing up for him?" " I had douzens of talks with the Kommendant" " The day you and Simon had a fight" "I get truffles three times a day" " Ever since your private talk with the Kommendant haven't you?" " So what?" " Did you see the Kommendant that night?" " Everybody's planning something.." " And after Dick escaped you were excused from further appels" " I know he was planning something" " I see" " Player was planning to get to France and reach the Mediterranian" " Did you know?" " Know what?" " Carrington!" "Stand up" " Did you know?" "Simon" "Dick were drawing triangles..." " He asked us what we were doing" " Did you tell him?" " No!" " What is it?" " The SBO wants to see you." "Now" " After the appel tonight we'll give him a chance" " A sort of Court" " Martial" " Don't you think we ought to give him a chance to defend himself?" "listening..." " Could be they knew where to look..." " Jerry's picking him up it could have been just his bad luck" " Perhaps it wasn't ..." " Perhaps it was..." " That's all" " Just bad luck this time" " We had some bloody reason for being alive!" " Alright!" "You've got another go" " At least when we're doing that we had something to do" " We should have made thousand and thousand of navigation tables" " Cursing the days when it rained the lenght of shadows at noon.." "wait for the sun to come out" "Dick and I We should have made those Azimuth tables" " We could brush up on our Spanish." "Take up the French horn" " Easy old man!" "we've got plenty of time." "We've got years and years" " Steady!" "Steady Simon!" " He'll spend the next couple of months on the self." " Damn!" " Get out!" "Bergman!" "don't you want to hear how your side is getting on?" " Rommel's doing well too" " The British fought out of Greece." " I'd expected to find you in a more cheerful mood this morning forget it" " Did he get clear?" " I don't know him" " Player?" " Lt. Player.." " Player?" " Any news of Dick?" " Who?" "at least Dick got away" " They thought they'd see if we tried that trick again" " Why change the bag?" " They probably ripped it open and found Dick's duffelcoat." " Jerry's on to a scramble" " I've been punching it for months I know every thread of it" " It's a different bag." " Are you sure?" " Hold it!" "Pat!" " The duffelcoat still in there?" " I'll take another look at it tomorrow morning Get as much sleep as you can" " What were you hit with?" " I don't know" " There isn't any need for a bandage." "It isn't much more than a cut really you are a lucky fellow." "Excuse me!" " Can you stand?" " You are excused all appels until further notice.It's the Kommendant's orders looks like someone made it over the wall" " Barely a little bruising." "Alarmsounding doesn't seem to be any serious damage." " Take him to his quarters get up Lieutenant" "I just want a few words with Lt. Carrington gentlemen." "whistling" " You stop being American when you join the British Armed ..." "legally anyway." " I suppose he'd got off with it if he'd been American" " They made out the warrant the minute he started his broadcasts telling us to give up" " Why shouldn't we?" "It's treason" " They ought to stuff him" " Aren't you ever going to move?" " We'll hang him when it's over." " Hang Lord Haw-Haw?" "it's not like joining up and then supporting the enemy" " He had the decency to leave the country before the war even started" " Lord Haw" " Haw never pretended to be on our side" " He was working in his cell all afternoon" "Sir barking of dogs" " Maybe the Kommendant told Carrington that he was excused appel." "the Kommendant's friend." " And your man seems to be missing" " What man?" " Where is the twelfth?" " There are only supposed to be eleven British officers and your man" " Eleven!" " Or I'll break your neck" " Be quiet and do as you're told bell ringing bellringing rustleofkeys" " Commonly known as a daisy awhistleblows peculiar to the spieces mallies penoris" " Ah..." " Get back!" " Last year in Baden-Baden the snow was this high thumping of war..here in Colditz every word that I wrote would be suspect." "from what the Americans call the Gestapo" " What I'm thinking is that..." " You prefer to stay here?" "I know that" "Perhaps a hotell room in Berlin we were considering another form of internment." " As long as I get my work done" " It might be possible to arrange a different environment for you" " So you've adapted to Colditz?" " All anyone need is a sense of purpose something to do" " And some of you don't" " Some of you adapt to the idea of remaining prisoners here in Colditz too" " The human spieces like any other have to adjust to the excisting surroundings" " You have an unusual contempt for human intelligence" " For an American with your background" " Disllusioned liberal" " For an American liberal... but he didn't apply his ideas to politics" "Darwins theory..." " I found it very interesting..." "your analysis of power situation sit down" " You have our permission to continue with your work" " How does the Gestapo feel about it?" "you will be given every opportunity to publish it in The United States the Minister of Propaganda is most enthusiastic about the 2 first chapters of your manuscript" " The minister has asked me to encourage you in any way to finish your book one of yours that makes twelve" " Twelve" " Eleven British Officers and Philip Carrington" " For our opinion..." "Bellringing" " And then the Ministry of Propaganda will pass that on to the Gestapo HQ" " With great interest" " The Ministry of Propaganda will read every word of it we will" " Why don't you read it?" " I've said already loud and clear in the first few chapters" " And is that what you're going to say in your book?" " That's all I'm trying to say" "I don't think the United States can risk fighting Germany that's all" " That is completely irrelevant" " All I'm trying to do is to convince you that I'm a realist" " Did Hitler have a change of mind about Stalin?" "After he signed the non- agression treaty with him?" " Are you trying to convince us that you've had a sudden change of mind?" " Would you like me to quote you on Goebbels and Mussolini before the Rome" " Berlin pact?" "I did is to stop Hitler now" You know who wrote that of course" " The Spanish Republican Government stands for democracy everywhere" " I was working for an American newspaper there the Herald Tribune" " Yes..." " You didn't keep out of them yourselves you were in Madrid 1936." " Roosevelt promised to keep us out of foreign wars" " Every German who voted for Von Papen knew that the elective chancellor Von Papen was secretly member of the Nazi party" " How many Germans voted for Hitler during the last Reichstags elections?" " You've found out a lot about me" " Yes" " You were secretary of the Students for FTA at Michigan State University including you" " She was also a member of the Illinois delegation to the Democratic Convention in 1931 she was born in Cologne" " Philip Reinhart Carrington" " It looks like the Gestapo are just here to see Lt.Carrington" "Bergman" " Meaning they're searching the Polish quarters first" " I don't think they'd come and snoop at all" " They're not coming this way" " The Cpt. has left the Kommendant's office." " Scramble!" " Gestapo!" "trumpet music in the back ground whistles" " Heil Hitler" " Right" " And you can tell Cpt.Grant that... it hasn't that the German army moved into Yugoslavia of course your friends would have told you..." " Go on..." " Hitler has invaded Yugoslavia now" "Sir" "Sir" " Never mind the bed." "Leave it!" "don't they?" " Am I breathing too heavily for you?" " Yes" " Bergman!" "Get on with your work and let me get on with mine" "I'm sorry if I said anything at all to offend you..." " Those other sub-humans" " Not to mention Jesus of Nazareth..." " Member of an inferior race." "but I'm prejudice of course being jewish finish up and get out" "Hess or Hitler?" "what friends in the right place can do for you" " Nice little nog you've got here...cosy" " I suppose that the Navy know what he's doing." "I'll check the whole scheme out with our friends in case there's any conflict." " And then check it with Greenwich time" " We've got our latitude and longitude right by a couple of miles anyway anywhere" " We've made a complete set of latitude tables right?" "show him..." " You need more than compasses to steer a course" " It's only a weeks voyage to Malta" " What about intstruments?" "is that they won't mind us stealing it." " I've got some friends in St. Tropez They've got a 14 foot yacht" " The whole coast of France is occupied it's impossible to get to a boat don't you?" "Spain's out" " Not much closer than to France" " We've got some good contacts in France" " Everybody heads for the Swiss border." " It's the closest..." " We're not going anyway near Switzerland." " Switzerland is too obvious has been getting some pretty bad press in the United States lately but I think it will at least show the other side of the argument." " And you think one book will change it?" "because he's had public opinion behind it" "I believe that" " What would you hink his next move would be?" " Germany has no quarrel with the United States and no doubt a student of the last World War" " I imagine that he's goint to push Lend-Lease through Congress" " Roosevelt has already repealed a neutrality act." " Why are you in such a hurry to finish the book?" " Hmmm...stand easy" " Leave us!" " From the Allied side" " The losing side" " I've seen a good deal of the Germans during this war" " That I covered the Blitz in London." "Holland and Denmark" "You'd also see that I was a foreign correspondent for the United Press in Spain that you decided to write a book?" " 63" " How many days was it before you're re-captured and sent here?" " You must have seen a great deal of the country in the..." " Germany and the war" " What is the subject of the book?" " Germany" " They'll pass it" " ...submitted to the Central Bureu of Censorship in Berlin" " All written material adressed to the United States must be..." " My publisher in the United States wants it as soon as possible" " Perhaps years..." " Not for this one" "Lt." "time to finish it." "do you wish to be sent to solitary confinement?" " I want permission to speak to the Kommendant." " Finish what?" "it would give me time to finish." "it suits me fine" " I had a reason." "It seemed like a pretty good way to get 15 days in a cell" " For no reason" " You provoked the assault is 7 days solitary confinement." "Dismissed!" " It's also against the rules in Colditz." "Sir" " Nor in the Wehrmacht" " Are officers allowed to fight among themselves in The Royal Air Force?" "shouting and barking stop!" "it won't be the first time the Germans planted a stooge" " What about?" " We have a theory about you too" " I have a theory that the British suffer from arrested development." "That's why" " Why are you so interested?" " so he can present it to the other escape officers" " My wife and I were planning to go to Cannes on our honey-moon" " I've been thinking... used to go sailing..." " It's rather chiq to have a British Naval Officer at their parties." " All dressed white and coctails..." " What's it like there in peace time?" " There will be plenty of sun this time of the year and we've got to get one more reading this week shine!" " A job in the Ministry of Propaganda ensures us a warm dry spring..." " We'll keep an eye at him" " Which side was he on?" " He's a journalist for The Berliner Zeitung" " How did you know?" " Jimmy Corbin knew him in Spain is American alright" " Really?" " Anyone could say they were American" " What do we know about him?" "he meant it alright" " More or less..." " Is that what's all about?" " At first hand" "I might have been one of the few Americans to record the decline and fall of the British Empire ...I am a camera." "Camera's don't take sides" " That doesn't mean that I want the Nazis to win." "One of your English writers said..." " I might have done that if I'd been in Berlin instead of London at the time" " It's a pity you didn't join the Luftwaffe" " But you're a pilot..." " To observe what's going on" " Then why did you join the RAF?" " To observe" "I do... do you?" "you talk about women behind their backs..." " Certainly not" " I wish you'd stop talking about women" " Can you think of a better subject?" "and Deanna Durbin." " Deanna Durbin's Canadian..." "I'll tell you what...we'll swop India for Hawaii and the Philippines" " Why don't you liberate India?" "There's an occupied country" " That's an idea.That's a very good idea!" " I thought we might liberate the occupied countries first" " Before we give in..." " I'll give you 6 months after the fall of Greece" " But we'll never lose it" " You said it it's pretty difficult to see how we're going to win this war is only an extension of politics." "When you abandon Czechoslovakia for political reason please do you remember that?" " That's no comparison..." "" Hitler's missed the bus" " They're saying that about France..." " Hitler's has given up the idea of invading England." "It's too late..." " I was on the run a couple of months before I was caught and sent here" " Where did you get that from?" "...only this time the Germans are ready to cross the channel" " The British Army is bugged down in Greece." "There's going to be another Dunkirk" " Would you mind explaining that?" " Maybe you haven't heard.." "...without the Germans there ahead of me..." " At least I have a country I can go home to one day..." " I didn't sing it to offend you singing It's over when it's over..." " That's enough... singing" " Not again..." " We're gonna need at least another weeks readings before we can begin to make accurate tables talking" " Another tactical British withdrawal we all get like this sometimes" " You see that punching bag there?" "Why don't you go and hit it" "Dick..." "called me a limy limy yank!" " Flak!" "will ye?" " For God's sake yank!" "will you?" " Go ahead and play" " Now!" " No... one way or the other" " Do you want to wind up inside?" "and I know I'm gonna tell you something" " I'm sorry...but I told you yesterday you got to be patient" " Thank God I'm not married" " we don't seem to had any time together at all it's just that looking back..." " You should try not to think about it so much" " I know... that's all" " What about that?" " I was waiting to be posted to a squadron" " When my wife and I were married I just got out of training school" " What do you mean?" "depends what you're waiting for how slowly time passes when you're waiting for something cheering" "10 minutes ago..." " 3 minutes..." " Isnt it?" " It's time isn't it?" "shouting and cheering someonewhistlesatune" " A lot of luck and careful planning" " You should be out of here within 6 months with luck" "I'll try and get you on the list somewhere" "I'm wanted in the yard..." " It has nothing to do with solitary confinement..." " Quiet!" "someone's whistling it's a natural reaction to solitary confinement." "no one following someone else up there are 17 separate plans waiting to be considered and discussed..." " June?" " There's quite a waiting list..." "I should be able to get back to you by the beginning of June" " Alright..." " When..how long before I get an answer?" " So you will put my plan to the escape committee magic!" " I'm not asking you for medical advice I want to talk about escaping" " Do as much exercise as you can" " Look... it takes a few days to get used to have ppl around" " Bad luck" " You had a rough stretch of solitary the escape officer" " There's a spare bunk up here" " How do you do?" "I'm Tim Downing" " Bill Carrington" " Scramble!" "let's try it" "What do you think?" " Fine"