" Where am I taken?" " laughter---- and we'll escape soon Polish lancers" "Cpt Jan Jadriovsky" " All the might from a bucket handle" " We'll have to do something about your uniform" " There's a funny way going about it!" "thinks we've been brought here to be executed shut up!" "but not barracks.At least I don't think so" " What is this place?" " That's what we've trying to work out" " Got here a couple of hours ago." " How long have you chaps been here?" " George Brent" " Tim Downing Royal Army Service Corps" "Royal Navy" " I now need your right hand thumb print." "and must produce it on demand." "and your number here" " This is your identity disc and are now free from parasites one pair" " one officers dress jacket." " Whose is this?" "one army regulation chart..." " You're entitled to remain in your own underclothing" " Damn it!" "You don't have the authority to open your mouth!" "how many ppl you've just condemned to death." " I've already made my decision and I won't be needing your bed" " Think about it!" "Tell me your decision in the morning it runs in the family" " But I couldn't possibly in good faith swear that you aren't an agent." " And that I'm inclined to believe you." "I can also tell them that you're an officer in the Royal Navy and will assure the authorities that you're my old friend since I've been asked to identify you." "no ofcourse not!" "do you think they'd believe me or you?" " My dear Dick!" "You are a romantic!" "Who would you tell?" " I didn't say I wouldn't repeat what you're telling me you're taking a risk telling me all this." "I said that I wouldn't try to escape" " I think that would be a tragedy..." " And I want you to help me" " I want to go back to England." " Splendid!" " To go on fighting it all depends on Britain recognizing you one thing..." " Yes?" " You can tell me your decision in the morning" " I've prepared the spare bed at my flat" " You haven't touched your wine!" " In time..." " It would be a gentlemen's agreement." "You can't have that without gentlemen" " Not with the sort of ppl there are already working for us in England." " Which she wouldn't ask for from the Nazis." "We must work with ppl that we trust" "Britain will ask for amnesty." "obviously if I or my collegues are going to risk our lives... why couldn't they do it?" "Why do you need me? so there's no trouble at all" " But life of one man even a friend against the lives of thousands" " Would you have me killed?" " I have my honour!" "I find this conversation most distasteful ...of a united Europe seemed to my collegues to be in danger" "I would hate to do this." "But if the whole prospect... lets talk about it!" "What difference would it make to me?" " I would feel an obligation to the ppl I'm associated with except to you of course." " Meaning what?" "nobody would believe you not making contact" " It more or less goes with the job." "Just as your father was with the British it must have occured to you that I'm connected to the Intelligence" " As you're an officer and gentlemen you'd give your word" " I would suggest you left for Sweden" " And may I ask why you trust me?" " I could help." " Come in!" "and as a POW it's your duty to try and escape" "I'm a POW" " Would you seriously think I'd do all this?" "Dick" " Offering egual partnership and the protection of the empire" " and explain that we're ready to make peace with England but me and your father" " I want you to see certain ppl whose names I will give you" " You've finished the caviar?" " Yes" " We've our contacts in England Ppl that really matter" " just to flatter the ego's of the politicians" " That doesn't sound like the country I left" "I can't believe that most ppl want to continue a pointless struggle but we're even fewer that want to continue a war" "I think there are very few ppl that want the war" " To convince ourselves that we existed." " Where do I come in to all this?" " And a long way after that as a German." "We've had to fight 2 major wars or whatever..." " all through history we've consisted of hundreds of states we have no national frontiers" " The last place to guarantee was Poland" " Who does Britain guarantee?" " Is Britain in a position to guarantee anything?" "Britains empire guaranteed by the German army..." " And?" "the end of this absurd war between cousins an alliance between Germany and England" " Please do start" " Come in!" "I would expect to be offered a post" " So who will govern?" " Responsible ppl..." "Hitler won" " You overthrow the Nazis and have free elections?" " Not exactly free elections..." " Do you think they would now?" " We Germans are very malleable." " I doubt if the ordinary German would accept the idea of a negotiated peace." "but if the Luftwaffe had won that ...and you've done something else noone has managed before.Which is to cut RM Goring down the side but your navy is intact now is much better than most dare to hope... my next suggestion is serious." "...no man in Germany can feel safe." "I've already suggested that you take that commision... yes..." " Until we can get rid of the Fuhrer..." " But you must realise that I'm taking a risk talking to you" " Prost!" "business and pleasure." " I assumed that it was another reason for you to invite me here" "I'd like to make a suggestion" " No.." " It's more an emotional concept than a country." "did you ever go there?" "most of the waiters were called up." "Sir!" "and I'm having the herring and the duckling" " What ever you say..." " Fine!" "And a bottle of claret." " And there was duckling with sauerkraut." "Do you like truffles?" "Pork chops?" " It's a long time since I had caviar." " I think I'll stay with the Bismark herring you used to like them... another benefit of our alliance with the Russians" " Not exactly..." " We'll dine earlier then" "I hope that Gestapo wounded your appetite hasn't used excessive force." " and all their natural comedians into politics..." " They put all the talanted ppl into musical comedies" " The Americans?" " I always find it hard to take them seriously making one blade instead of two" " They have devoted themselves to write even longer novels..." " Who?" "The Russians?" "They wouldn't dare to attack us" " He ofcourse would go..." " And the rest of the world?" " I got the idea that this was what Hitler wanted." " Who knows what the Fuhrer wants?" " Yours?" " I didn't mean the Italians" " And the British empire protected by the most powerful army on earth" " Protected by the most powerful navy on earth." "Your navy!" " Which is something the Romans never achieved" " Rather than later when she's been broken." "Then we'll have a united Europe whe she has strength to bargain" " Cheers!" " Cheers!" "the world ever has known that wants to ensure that there's peace for ever" " And what you have to suggest..." " I like it to remain confidential" " One may find the next table occupied by a conductor or maybe Goebbles." "you know what it's like" " Friendship!" "But I also want to make a suggestion to you why a private room?" " Why anything?" " Why?" " Why the Adlon?" "It's the only decent hotell left in Europe." "I've booked at private room at Adlon for dinner same again?" " Thanks know what I feel about Britain." "until Britain surrenders!" "the Germans who support him." "Until then... and realises who her real friends are... he always says he wants his watercolours." "How is unimportant!" "or retires?" " So Hitler would go" " How?" "all of us that don't want Hitler." "Would know we had support" " Germany rules Europe." "The last thing I want is a Nazi Germany ruling Europe." "not an allie in the world." "everyone exept the British everyone knows" " What's moral like in Britain?" " Good!" " As long there's a war is that they feel commited support him passively he'd be blown back to Austria wants to get rid of Hitler not Ribbentrop of course the only thing that keeps Hitler in power is the war" " One doesn't hear much of resistance." " That doesn't mean there isn't any every German will be assumed a Nazi" " They're getting quite a reputation." " That is exactly what I mean" " And ppl like the Gestapo." "The damage they're doing terrifies me but I meant the government." "don't want it to last much longer but I've asked you." "...when it is formed." "So I have." "Will you?" "to persuade you to accept a commision in this we've beaten everyone else." "He wanted me..." " They will fight along our side." " Against Britain?" "troups of different nationalities" " Oh yes!" "Someone from the SS phoned this morning." " I hope they weren't as unpleasant as they can be." " I've met ppl I took to more they're terrible stupid" " That was bad luck" " I escaped and was caught" " That you claimed you were." " My ship was sunk that you're a Naval Officer this government doesn't tell me to do anything" " Did they ask for the name of the ship?" " I didn't even know you were on a ship" " You must allow me a little initiative." "I like to see my friend they wouldn't hav to bring me here" " To old friends." " pretending to be a soldier." " Say when." " Unforgivable!" "If it hadn't been for him I'd been in France" " I was so angry I had him shot when this horse fell over me and broke my back" " Soda or water?" " Sit down please." " Sherry?" "Vodka?" "that's all." "What would you like to drink?" " But quite presentable..." " Why have they brought me here?" " an inch of the trouser legs could be removed" " That's better!" "It's a little tight across the chest" " Yes" " Fine!" "won't you?" " And I doubt the Nazis would forgive me" "I doubt I'd put up any resistance" " Not when you're with me." " I'd be grateful if you give your word that you won't escape." " Ive given the servant the evening off." " You go and have your bath." "The world hasn't come to an end" "I'm proud of my English" " It's more comfortable to speak English there for you too." "And then we can chat" " I hope one of them fits you The bathroom is ensuite" "I've got quite a choice" " I really can't have you in that state." "My bedroom's through here... and I want to hear everything!" " Heil Hitler!" " Naturally" "Sir!" "...and by implication myself from escaping." "You will do so from there!" " both open to the foyer." "If you really intend to prevent my friend..." " The front entrance that leads to the alley on the back where the lift and stairs both emerge." " I doubt our guest will jump out the window" "Sir!" " We're on the 3rd floor your uniform clashes with the wallpaper!" " Nonsense!" "Ppl will think I'm under housearrest" "Sir!" "Sir." " Apart from those dreadful clothes" " Come in!" "It's freezing out there You haven't changed at all do as I say." "I'll have to shake hands with you" "Sir until you sign for him" "Sir" " When you've undone him" " All these ppl has to fight eachother so that we can meet again" " I have a prisoner for you" " Herr Von Eisinger?" " Graf Eisinger" " Certainly not Graf Eisinger." " just to identify a stray prisoner!" "we can hardly expect anyone coming to Paris" " I suppose he will get what we won't for some time" "Sir?" " It's pathetic!" "But anybody would send a spy with a hopeless cover story" " Yes..." " We actually believed he was a spy" " That was a bit of luck!" " Prisoner number 12 has to be fed and allowed to sleep." " Von Eisingen?" " You can go!" " Guard!" "this one better exist" " Paul Von Eisingenr!" "He was in the foreign office" " I'm still waiting!" " Why didn't I think of him before?" " I knew someone!" "And it won't be the army!" "while you think of more stories!" " You'd better think!" " Give me a moment will you?" "I'm too tired that a man decorated postumously is dead!" "... the names of ppl awarded decorations." "And even British Intelligence... we do publish..." " Get hold of him..." " Postumously!" " I told you!" " He was awarded the Iron Cross" "Konrad served as an officer in Luftwaffe" " I'm sure he could!" "can confirm who I am" " Then you can find who else lives in the block of flats" " The diplomatic list gives an adress in Berlin." "All you need is a phone directory that's not difficult." " I was talking!" " You've got a name from the diplomatic list?" " I knew him before..." " Good!" " What happens now?" "Konrad Haderer!" "what?" " Konrad!" "His name was Konrad when i was 15-16 he lived in a flat below" " The building where your father lived." "Can you remember anyone else?" " Do you remember anyone else living there?" " What?" "I am trying to help you." " But you could have learned it the same way" " How did you know?" " From the pre-war diplomatic list" " Number 17?" " Yes" " Where did he live in Berlin?" " He had a flat in the Schumann ring" " Your father..." " What about him?" " that might help me to believe you." " I'm too tired to think" " Don't try and speak with your mouth full but if you could think of anything" " What meal?" " Go on!" "Help yourself." "it's just that I overlooked that you missed a meal" " Here!" "Have this!" " In exchange for what?" "I've forgotten that you haven't eaten" " I only want the truth..." " Are you hungry?" "anything they've got..on a tray." " Send up the prisoner number 12." "And get me something from the cantine yes" "Sir!" " He's had 2 hours back in his cell" " He's not being fed again" " I could do with a good night's sleep." "you will tell me the truth!" " Well!" " Stand up!" "I've already told you how I landed." " How you landed.." " I have no orders who your contacts are." "have a cigarette are not protected" " Not everybody is protected by the Geneva Convention to tell me" " Under the Geneva Convention" " We need proof." "You can tell me or my CO or silly that doesn't mean that the rest of you story is true indeed..but even supposing that you are Lt.Player what it was doing off the coast of France" " You have my name and rank if you gave us the name of your submarine." "...it's just that my CO would be convinced" " Proof?" "I'm not calling you a liar ...than... you've given us." " What sort of evidence?" "we'll need a bit more evidence..." "Royal Navy" "I don't really believe that..." "You might even be Pt." "Haydn" " I don't know what you're talking about." "I've told you who I am!" " We can check that ofcourse.." "but it's information anyone could get you could have got that from any published diplomatic list but you must help me too." " He was taken in ill in August -38 and brought back to England he died 3 months later." "where's your father?" " He's dead too." "where's she?" " She died when I was three in Dartmouth just came here for holidays" " But you weren't educated in Germany?" "or your memory why?" " How do you spell that?" " Thurrold" " What was his name?" " James Thurrold Player isn't it?" " Why?" " My father was a counsellour of the embassy." " I spent a lot of my childhood in Germany." "In Berlin" " How is it...that you speak perfect German?" " You're here as prt.Hayden" " I've given you my name a dozen times" " Start from the beginning..." "We will ignore your name for the moment" " but you have to trust me" " I have great respect for the British." "I give you my word" " Cigarette?" " But what the hell...?" " It's much better to tell me instead of my CO to find out" " I don't know what you want me to say..." " Anything that will help you." "tell me the truth!" " Anyway..." "I doubt that my CO would agree to escort you there and you weren't there long if I went back coming from a hospital that has no record of you" " or with id-papers that doesn't belong to you" " Without no id-papers..." " Player..." "It's not an uncommon name" " Proof?" "No..." " Any proof that you're Lt.Player?" " Thank You!" " Do sit down." " He's an idiot!" "You talk to him!" " No" " And..the sweater..." "would it have your rank?" " There was no warning" " I see..." "I was asleep" " Look!" "When we were hit I was off watch." "...if you've had one!" " if you'd been in the hospital!" " The hospital assured that they'd recognise your uniform" " I was speaking!" " They told me that many uniforms were torn and bloodstained." " I've been trying to tell you..." " The report said nothing about any uniform" " Are the British Navy's uniforms made of material that dissolves in water?" " Convenient... all papers destroyed." " But there were no Lt.Player and documents..." "Royal Navy" " It's a hospital ran by the army" " I have of course been in contact with the hospital" " So you said in the statement." "and escaped." "at Aurney in France" " Can you give me a reason why I should believe you?" " You're captured outside a well known submarine base nothing" " Then you say you're an officer in the Royal Navy" " First you say you're prt Haydn" " You've been very stupid" " We have no record of one being sunk." " Which submarine?" " That ofcourse I can't tell you." "I'll tell you this much..." "it was a submarine" "..to be able to drift ashore." "They'd been sunk in the middle of the Atlantic." "even as talented as you to survive in the water long enough" "British ships don't come near enough to the French coast" " I'm not keeping your records" " But we have no record of any British ship being sunk at the time when you arrived." " You said that you arrived in France because your ship had been sunk" " Always assuming I believe you." " Why shouldn't you?" " You're quite right" " That is all.." " Under the Geneva convention I'm obliged to tell you my name and rank." " I think you'd better... what ship?" " I'm afraid I can't answer that." " My ship was sunk" " And how do you say that you arrived in Europe?" " Or our identities..." " Perhaps the war hasn't gone on long enough for us to sort out our talents and ... so fluently bilingual." "the Royal Navy is lucky to have officers of such a low rank" " Yes" "I was saying you spoke perfect German" " And you speak perfect German?" " I spent lot of my childhood in Germany" "Royal Navy then who are you?" " I'm sorry..." " He has been fed 2 meals in two days..." "You tell me" " Well?" " I don't know." "I haven't a watch or a window in my cell" "You've been here 2 days" " These papers..." " I've been trying..." " Silence!" " You said you were private Haydn." "You have the papers of private Haydn" " Private Haydn" " No" " I didn't tell you to sit!" " And shut that window!" " Send him in!" " I know you won't." "You can tell the Gestapo in Paris" " Before I'll tell you who are you?" " The man I spoke to could actually see him out of his window" " Private Haydn is not on leave he's still at the hospital" " It's only one anomaly left" "Private Haydn is on the staff of the hospital" "Sir" " You heard that I spoke to the hospital and you're not a deserter." "Sir i must admit that it seemed strange that you wanted to start a boat" " I really thought you were a deserter." " Now..." "I was wrong." "You may stand up... thank you ..." "Good bye!" "that's right" " Keep you hands up!" " Straight!" " and when did you last see him?" "Then find me someone that does know what he looks like do you have a private Hayden on your staff?" "...." "Oh... the MP" "Sir!" "Sir" "Sir" "Sir" " And you just happened to get in it?" " I just... that you just happened to see the boat..." " On your feet!" "Sir" " And you still say that you're private hiding of the medical" " Yes..." "screeching sound of brakes clanking sound of trainrail sound of a whistle--- but stuff that in this weather tell me will you?" " Yes.." " Look!" "I'll be in the hut outside" "I will" " It's out now of course..." "but warmer than out here" " Well..there was a fire in the waiting room" "I will" " before the military police see you." "(German) But if I were you I'd change into uniform" "I might just do that" "(German) ...if I'd put in for a transfer to be a hospital orderly" "(German) Ehh.." "I've been wondering..." "I wouldn't leave it there they'll pinch anything these froggies" "(German) Where's that?" " The uniform is in my bag" "(German) But I'd thought that you had to travel in uniform" "(German) I've seen some of your lot around...in civvies" "(German) for a military hospital" "(German) I suppose it's cheaper using a ready trained hospital orderly" " (German) but they let me go on with it" " (German) It's only a small one ofcourse" " (German) I've my own shop isn't it?" " Not really -(German)You must have been doing it before the war" " Tidy up after the doctors." "(German) Do you need special training?" "(German) What do you have to do?" " (German) Hospital ordely.." "yes to question him but you won't get anything out of him for some time" " Unreadable!" "All of it!" "Papier mache rank and age" " I want a lot more then that!" " Come back in a couple of days" " How long was he in the sea?" "Hmmmmm...hard to tell" " 24 hours possibly" " Was he wounded?" "shock...mostly exposure" " He was washed up from a place called St. Nicholas de Brem" " There has been no report of any surface engagement there" " He has not been in the water for much more than 24 hours 6 km off shore" " Could he've floated in from that?" "I'm a doctor not a harbour master the pilot only had a glimpse" " he just saw what might have been a submarine" " flashed a challenge - no reply turned and dropped the bombs" " Reported the submarine as possibly hit doesn't it?" " Pilots are a race of optimists is torn.." " See for yourself..." "I wouldn't call it a uniform ...Sweater and slacks in rags." " No sounds of an explosion?" "you really must be assuming that i'm a detective" " All I can tell you is that he was suffering from exposure" " Come back in 2 days time." " I'll be back tomorrow!" "a man singing in the shower--- didn't I?" "continues to sing" " You won't get a look from a nurse not unless you're a doctor." "continues to sing" "who's the clever dick who's playing games with my trousers?" "" "sound of footsteps " "papers!" " You're German.." " Yes" " I thought you were another Frenchman who was gonna say he missed his last train." " Who took this photograph of you?" " At home..." "" " What are you doing here this time of the day?" " Finding out about the trains..." "I got a week off" " Wish I had... it's half past one" " I came off duty at midnight there is no train until 7 am" "" " My sister lives in Cologne" " Cologne!" "Where you come from... just outside" "what a dump this is" " Yeah..." " You look ill it's going around..." " You get a pushy job like yours" " Luck...hmmmmm"