Die rote Kapelle Page #5

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I carefully looked out the window.....

... and saw that they had got their hands on my

father, who had ...

.. escaped through the basement.

On the 16th September 1942

the Gestapo came ...

... with as many men as we had rooms

Libertas (Schulze-Boysen) pulled me off the bus

and said ...

... something terrible has happened

Harro (Schulze-Boysen) is arrested.

After the arrest of Schulze-Boysen...

.. the Thiels no longer wanted

the radio in their house

They put it into a stroller

and brought it to Helmut Himpel.

One day

Freulein Terwiel called me...

the fiance of Himpel.

She said I had to come soon.

There was something and she had for me. It was

urgent. So I went there.

I only found Herr Himpel there.

Freulein Terwiel was not there.

Himpel said to me:

Take these home and hide them.

What was I supposed to do?

Did I say ...

.. I can not. My parents know nothing, I

have to ask them.

That would have been ridiculous.

So I took them.

Because nobody stopped me and checked, nothing happened to me.

When my father was allowed visitors. I remember, we were sitting on the terrace.

He was handcuffed. And we still talked to those young men ...

as if ... it was quite common. We really did not understand how bad it was.

My father had a stomach ailment

and asked the Gestapo officers...

... If he could take his pills.

No, you might take poison.

My mother and aunt Busset

and I were drinking tea.

When the bell rang.

I went to open it, unsuspectingly.

There were two obnoxious guys,

one had a wart on his forehead:

'Crime Squad. "

So I ask:
What do you want from us?

'Is your brother at home? "

I say:
No, he is not here.

'Where is he?'

I do not know.

I should have said:

Am I my brother's keeper?

Then they ask:
Where is his room?

They pushed me aside and went there.

After a while someone put the key in the lock

it was my brother coming home.

'We're looking for a suitcase. "

So I ask:
What kind of case?

Then they said "do not lie",

Herr Himpel has told us everything.

That was stupid of them, because when I knew that they had already Himpel.

I did not have to hide the fact that I knew him.

So I said:
Oh, are you looking for that.

He had never opened the suitcase.

- I could not.

The key was gone in fact.

This, later, saved my life.

It happened again

We hardly dared to breathe

or talkout of fear and terror.

When Helmut came out...

... with those two guys on his heels.

who didn't leave him alone

After a while my father came home.

Then we had so tell him.

Then I was very worried about him!

He sat at his desk with his hands before his eyes and there were tears.

I had never seen my father cry.

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