Bernard Musmand - Telling French army he was only 16
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Bernard Musmand - Telling French army he was only 16
Bernard Musmand - Telling French army he was only 16
Transcript: Sometimes the underground of the resistance would come to me and give me pack, a package. Usually it would contain false ID cards, false rationing cards, and they wanted to have it delivered somewhere, and, and I'll tell you a funny story about that. In 1944, May, somewhere around May of '44, I was supposed to deliver a pack to a little town in Fijac, and I was supposed to give it to the owner of a hotel there, and when I get there to the hotel, he tells me he doesn't want to take the pack because he was informed that the Germans were going to come to occupy the town and arrest some people. I had the pack, and I couldn't get out of town -- everything was stopped. I went to the railroad station, and took the pack and I hid it behind some bags and I was very scared to be very frank, and then I saw they, they some old, I would say must have been in his late 50's, middle 50's, German railroad police. And I went up to him and I started talking to him. Also I talked, at that time, I talked fluent German. I talked to him in broken German, and he was so, he became so friendly to see that Frenchman would speak to him, he invited me into his office, offered me chocolate. In the meantime, the Germans were arresting some like seven, eight hundred French people, Frenchmen, male, to be sent to Germany as foreign workers, and I was sitting in this office while they were loading up all the train with French people, and the German policeman kept saying, isn't that terrible, isn't that terrible. And afterwards, after everybody had left, I said thank you, and I was on my way.
Transcript: Sometimes the underground of the resistance would come to me and give me pack, a package. Usually it would contain false ID cards, false rationing cards, and they wanted to have it delivered somewhere, and, and I'll tell you a funny story about that. In 1944, May, somewhere around May of '44, I was supposed to deliver a pack to a little town in Fijac, and I was supposed to give it to the owner of a hotel there, and when I get there to the hotel, he tells me he doesn't want to take the pack because he was informed that the Germans were going to come to occupy the town and arrest some people. I had the pack, and I couldn't get out of town -- everything was stopped. I went to the railroad station, and took the pack and I hid it behind some bags and I was very scared to be very frank, and then I saw they, they some old, I would say must have been in his late 50's, middle 50's, German railroad police. And I went up to him and I started talking to him. Also I talked, at that time, I talked fluent German. I talked to him in broken German, and he was so, he became so friendly to see that Frenchman would speak to him, he invited me into his office, offered me chocolate. In the meantime, the Germans were arresting some like seven, eight hundred French people, Frenchmen, male, to be sent to Germany as foreign workers, and I was sitting in this office while they were loading up all the train with French people, and the German policeman kept saying, isn't that terrible, isn't that terrible. And afterwards, after everybody had left, I said thank you, and I was on my way.