Walter Marx - Becoming interpreter for the Germans
Transcript: He says, I know you speak German. The Germans asked us to provide an interpreter. I want you to work for the Germans. So I said, well, suppose I don't do it? He says, well, if you don't do it, you take your chances when you go for interrogation and whatever happens, happens. and I became the interpreter for the German SS. They told me every -- every morning or, as matter of fact, as they hired me, they says, if anything gets out from what happening here, we're going to shoot you. That was the only threat they made. Otherwise, they were -- they were nice to me. I got nice food. They put me up in a hotel. And for the first time in many months I slept in a bed with sheets. Now every night I had to meet this man who had placed me there. That's when I realized he was a double agent. I must have met him at the partisans before even, so I didn't really recognize him. He looked familiar to me. So every night I had to report what happened, who was ca -- who was caught, what happened to the people. Um, where the -- the Germans intended to go and look for partisans.