:59:02
In the event
we got caught,
:59:04
we did have
a contingency plan.
:59:07
I had maps of Austria,
Czechoslovakia and East Germany.
:59:11
And we would have made
some kind of a ground flight
across one of those countries...
:59:15
to either get to Austria
or to West Germany.
:59:20
We would've just
essentially taken off...
:59:22
and hope we made it
to a border before somebody
figured out what was going on.
:59:28
They probably wouldn't
have chased me immediately...
:59:31
because I would've,
from a practical standpoint,
:59:33
just been a vandal
chiseling holes
in their wall.
:59:41
I was never so relieved
when we passed through the
West German passport control.
:59:46
Because at least
I hadn't chiseled...
:59:48
at any of the West Germans'
national shrines.
:59:56
All of the forensic samples
that I took were brought back
to the United States...
1:00:00
and sent to a lab
here in Massachusetts
that was highly recommended.
1:00:04
They were not told
what the samples were
or where they came from.
1:00:09
They were told
that they were materials...
1:00:11
that would be involved
in a court case...
1:00:14
relative
to an industrial accident...
1:00:17
and they should be prepared
to testify...
1:00:19
and they should certify
all of the samples.
1:00:23
All of their tests
came back.
1:00:25
And they did
several types of tests...
1:00:27
to determine whether or not
there was any hydrogen cyanide.
1:00:31
They were negative.
1:00:34
These facilities
never saw any gas.
1:00:40
For virtually 40-odd years
I believed unquestionably
that there were gas chambers...
1:00:44
at these
concentration camps.
1:00:46
When I found that there weren't,
my next question is,
what do I do about it?
1:00:56
I completed my report,
and I testified at the trial.