English Translation

- 2 - 31. Martin had replied that, in view of his good hotel apartment, he could not be a prisoner of war, that he was a special prisoner and could live even better, "if the germans could make business with me". However, he did not go into this detail, but only explained to the woman that after the war he could explain to her a lot of things that he now had to keep silent about. The woman noticed that Martin asked her about twenty times in various forms whether she was really Czech, certainly not a "Nazi girl" and certainly did not work for the British intelligence service. On the evening, Martin took the evening meal at the local press club with General Rudl, Prague XIX, Schwerinstraße 46. When Rudl was called to the telephone, Martin quietly asked the serving Czech waiter in French, so that Lieutenant Bönninghaus might not have noticed or heard whether the Czechs would prefer the Nazis or the Americans. The waiter had answered in perfect French: "Of course the American!". In the Naoht of the l0. to the ll.2.d.Js. Martin told the woman that he was not a French Canadian, but a real American. He had his wife and a child in New York. The second child was expected in two months. Martin urgently asked not to teach Bönninghaus, which he had to address as his "friend". Martin asked the woman whether she had been abroad. When the woman affirmed that she knew Switzerland, Martin immediately reacted and asked carefully if she knew where the "Green Border" was. He thought she was near Basel. However, there would probably be a lot of snow there at the moment. In reply to the woman's question, why he was interested in this, Martin answered with the counter question, whether it would be possible for a Czech or a Czech woman to flee to his country.