
Decision Before Dawn
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- 1951
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(0.00 / 0 votes)Of all the questions
left unanswered by the last war-
and probably any war-
one comes back constantly to my mind-
- Why does a spy risk his life-
for what possible reasons?
If the spy wins, he's ignored.
lfhe loses, he's shot.
But a man stays alive as long as
he's remembered and is killed
only by forgetfulness.
Let the names of men like this
remain unknown...
but let the memories of some of them
serve as keys to the meanings of treason.
On the 8th of December, 1944,
six months after a piece of enemy shrapnel...
cut short my career with the Second Assault
and Signal Company on Omaha Beach...
I was reassigned by headquarters,
Com. "Z", E. T. O...
and ordered to report to a new outfit-
G2, S.S.S., Seventh Army.
That's what it was called.
There'd been no snow
and a lot of Krauts when I left France.
And now the Krauts were backed up against
the Rhine, and the snow was everywhere.
Otherwise, the war hadn't changed much-
crowded in the rear areas...
and lonely as you got nearer
and nearer the front...
with nothing but a map to tell you
where the enemy was supposed to be.
But you soon discovered
if your map was accurate enough.
- Hey, what's that?
- It's a German half-track. That's what it is.
I don't get it. That wasn't here
when I came by this morning.
- Well, let's turn around here
and find out where we are.
- Yes, sir.
- Stop right here.
- Yes, sir.
I'm sorry, sir.
I keep tellin' 'em back at headquarters...
I got no sense of direction,
but they just won't listen to me.
A soldier's not much good if he can't
find his way back to his own outfit.
- It's like not bein' able to find your way home.
- My home? My home's in Boise.
For cryin' out-
We've come 20 miles out of the way.
- Now we'll probably have to fight
our way through a whole Kraut-
Come on. Get outta there!
Give it up, you rats.
Come on! Move it on!
Keep your hands up.
- Over this way. Move.!
- Come on. Get the lead out.
Move over there.
That's close enough. Right there.
You frisk 'em.
I'll keep 'em covered.
Hey, you. I said, keep your hands up.
That's what I meant. Come on!
Stand still.
- He was hit by shrapnel, sir.
- You're in the Luftwaffe.
What are you doin' around here?
- I'm with a flak group.
- We're attached to an infantry division.
- Yeah? Which one?
I'm sorry, sir, but I can't tell you anything
that isn't in my Soldbuch.
- Want me to refresh his memory, Lieutenant?
- Ah, leave him alone.
Where's your C.P.?
- I don't know. We got lost.
- They're not the only ones.
"Richter, Paul. Unteroffizier."
He's weak, sir.
We haven't eaten for three days.
Not half as weak as he's gonna be
if you don't keep those hands up.
- Here. You look like you
could use a shot yourself.
- No, thank you.
All right. Climb aboard.
All right. Out, soldiers.
- Where'd you pick 'em up, Lieutenant?
Over here, you two.
Hey, I'm supposed to report to a town
called Marmoutier. You know where that is?
Stay on this road till you get to
a town called Saverne.
- Before you get into town,
take the first fork left. You can't miss it.
- Okay. Thanks.
Hey, here's their Soldbuchs.
- Hey, you want the pistol, Lieutenant?
- Yeah. Gimme that.
- Pistol.
- In there, you two.
Come on.
I want to thank you, sir,
for treating us with kindness.
Come on, Kraut-heads. Get movin'.
You're holdin' up the war.
Well, we finally
made it. Strange as it seemed to me then...
- this was the headquarters
to which I was assigned.
Just a moment, sir.
Sister Teresa's coming.
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