The Counterfeit Traitor Page #4

I haven't said I'd do it yet.

Oh, but I think you will.

We have a most interesting recording

of you accepting our first proposition.

Cheerio.

There wasn't much choice now.

It was either go along

or go to jail.

The next night I invited

my closest friend, Max Gumpel,

to have dinner

with my wife and me.

If I could get by them, the chances

were I could convince others.

I started by ranting about

the unfairness of the blacklist

and then tried

my first anti-British remark.

We like to feel that Sweden

is free and neutral, but she's not.

I hate to say it,

but we're occupied

just as surely

as Denmark and Norway.

Not by German military.

By Allied officials.

Eric, I know how

angry you must be,

but don't talk like that.

Max.

These men are determined

to capture us economically.

Watch and see.

England will involve us in this.

Ingrid was merely surprised,

but Max was hurt.

I hated to do it to him,

but apparently he believed me,

and that was the most

important thing.

Now I began to drop remarks here

and there with associates and friends.

Nothing too obvious at first.

That Germany was

only trying to recover

what had been stolen from

her at Versailles and Locarno.

As months went by,

I kept hammering away

at Churchill's treatment

of the French.

I took my time

but never lost an opportunity to drop

a little poison whenever I could.

Friends began avoiding me,

and I was alone most of the time.

I didn't try to contact

the German Embassy crowd.

I figured, sooner or later, they'd hear

about my attitude and try to woo me.

And they did...

... and eventually offered

me a membership

in the Swedish-German

chamber of commerce.

At one of the weekly meetings,

I made a speech paraphrasing an

editorial from a German newspaper.

And someday, even those

countries who now oppose him

will realize who their true

enemy really is.

And then they'll join

the Third Reich,

in a combined front

against international exploitation

and racial degeneration.

Thank you.

Remember Ulrich

and I are here

as representatives of the Third Reich

to help Swedish businessmen.

So if you have any problems,

please call on us.

- Thank you. Good night.

- Good night.

Good night.

- Oh, excellent speech, Eric.

- Yes, good.

Very much like an editorial

I read in the Frankfurter Zeitung.

Have you had a chance

to study my letter on the refinery?

Yes. I feel it has great possibilities

if certain questions can be answered.

And I have the first question.

Are you planning this to help

the Third Reich or to help yourself?

Well, I admit that personal gain

has a great deal to do with it.

National Socialism

is sacrifice, not profit.

And business is

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