:07:00
We were trying to nail
a poison gas formula.
:07:03
Something new. An appalling
by-product of Nazi frightfulness.
:07:07
Anyway, I don't think
I was very good...
:07:09
because the blighters knocked us off
like a couple of sitting pheasants.
:07:14
And we were being held
for questioning, Byrd and I...
:07:17
in a farmhouse
not very far from Weimar.
:07:20
One way and another,
we were in a pretty tight spot.
:07:23
Our guards, an S.S. First lieutenant
and a couple of troopers...
:07:26
were as pretty a crew
of cutthroats as ever you saw.
:07:30
There was also an official
of the Geheime Staatspolizei.
:07:33
A dreadful fellow named Hoff.
Oh, he was a horror!
:07:37
He'd questioned us
more than once and we knew.
:07:40
Young Byrd called him
"Jack the Ripper."
:07:43
J felt particularly sorry for young Byrd.
Nicest chap imaginable.
:07:48
His affection for me was positively
touching. A sort of hero worship.
:07:52
Used to embarrass
the devil out of me.
:07:55
Though why he liked me
J'll never know.
:07:57
Looking back, J must have been
a pretty offensive sort of fellow.
:08:00
You know, pre-war army.
Spit-and-polish.
:08:03
"Stand to attention when you address
an officer. "All that sort of thing.
:08:06
Anyhow, we'd planned to escape,
and this was the night.
:08:09
This was it.
:08:11
Wasn't much of a plan.
Odds against it coming off...
:08:14
were about
a thousand to one.
:08:17
We'd chosen this particular
night to escape...
:08:18
because Hitler was going
to broadcast from Munich...
:08:21
and a pretty safe bet his laddie boys
downstairs would listen in.
:08:25
J didn't know about Byrd,
but personally J was scared stiff.
:08:29
I don't know about you,
but personally I'm in an absolute sweat.
:08:34
Positively trickling, sir.
:08:39
Well, here we go.
:08:41
- Let's hope only one comes up.
- More than one, we're sunk.
:08:43
Sieg heil! Sieg heil!
:08:47
- Sieg heil!
- Why doesn't somebody throw him a fish?
:08:50
Sieg heil!
:08:53
- Wir mussten-
- Heil Hitler!
:08:56
... in der minoritaet belieben
wir die wertvollsten...
:08:59
- elemente des kampfes
und des opfersinns...
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