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ESCAPED
FROM GERMANY
MY heart thumped as I
lay in my sleeping-com- partment on the Berlin- Rome express.
Karl Stepanck, one of
Germany's most popular actors, recently escaped to Britain from Berlin and is
It was midnight. In a telling the full story of war-
time Germany. few minutes we should steam out of the Brenner station over the border into Italy.
Stepanek is a Czech by birth, and lived in Germany for ten years. He was often a personal guest of Hitler's.
To-day he tells the thrilling story of his fourney to Lon-
In a few minutes I should be don.. free,
My journey was being made gave me a certificate stating that I openly. The Nazis believed that ought to go abroad for a cure. I was going to Italy to make a film there.
When I presented all these creden- itals in order to get an exit-permit, I was politely told that there were plenty of spas Inside Germany.
Only I and a few men who had helped me in Berlin knew that, once across the frontier, I would never return; that I was
I could be allowed to leave escaping to join in the fight Germany, I was told, only if I against the oppressors of my had a contract to make films in Czech fatherland.
a neutral country.
Then the trip would be "in the in-
Still, the Gestapo has long cars -and sometimes it likes to play with terests of the State." The money I Its prey. Many last minute arrests
are made on the frontiers.
I tried not to
think of these as
I lay and waited. The Customs Inspector and cur-
by
KARL STEPANEK Germany's Greatest Movie Star
earned
abroad could be used by the Reichsbunk, which desperately needed foreign) currency. It would be a patrio-
undertaking,
MARNE
RIVER PLATE
Room for More
have
The Yanks
word for it
THE
a
THE jargon of the American underworld is a mixture of slang, cant and argot used with
tells the complete story. He says: "I held him up and robbed klm-I was discovered and had to run, but I got afty dollars."
I went away and remes officials had passed my com- pulled mere strings, finally obtaining THE prank special to the Telegraph" partment without stopping. marily a language of expedience leaving: to take it on the lam, to
indicate news which is strictly copyright less they knew me `as an actor wen to make a picture in Rome.
Js used by the tongkang Telegraph to under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 10 Auch new a bears the indication "UP" is received in Flongkong on the date of pubilcation by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republication. either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
Looking Backward
Historians make us acquainted with stirring scenes and events of former times in which famous men played their parts. Ima- gination invests auch episodes with an atmosphere like that. which the dramatist contrives to surround the lifelike presenta- tions of the stage. The present confers a romantic and dramatic
quality upon the picturesque transactions of the past, and future generations will read with keen-interest-the-story-of-the- critical days through which we are now passing. The historians of a generation hence will be able to look at these events in Л perspective that is denied to us at the moment and estimate their significance with a better sense of proportion.
or
Some. future Gibbon Macaulay will comment upon the mental and moral aberrations for which the German people had long been noted. He will trace the steps by which they became the victims of domestic regi- mentation and later on the slavish tools of ambitious mili- tary leaders. He will tell how there adventurers proclaiming themselves the divinely appoint ed guides and rulers of the "peerless" German TRCE, CX- tinguished the spirit of liberty In that country. He will give a vivid account of the long series of outrages inflicted by Germany upon her neighbours, of the unavailing efforts of the Western Powers in the interest of peace and international justice, and of their decision to take up arms in defenco of civilization. All this will be by way of preface or introduction to the historian's pen-picture describing the course of the great conflict.
narrate the, events that led
to
liked in Berlin. Better not annoy any friend of the lenders!
Voices outside began to shout that
everything was ready for departure,
Surely it was all right now?
Then I heard my name called
the corridor.
In
.
out any conscious adherence to A criminal has almost innumerable grammatical rules, and is pri- words used to describe the net of characterised by terseness of scrom, to screw, to blow, to mope, I said goodbye to my Berlin flat, phrase and simplicity of de- The show-up, where suspects are and to breeze-to mention a few. looked wistfully at the handsome scription. It is a strange ac displayed and paraded for identiflen total in my bank-book, gave a Inst
Is the stage, or by victims, thought to my bungalow on the cumulation of words borrowed tion Fanker Lake in Carinthia. All these from every social group in every nights and raised platform.
Hollywood. from the brilliant spot- possessions, won by years of hard geographical area of the Eng one is pointed out by
When victim he is work, I had to leave behind for the lish-speaking world.
sald to
to get the finger, and if he is Nazis to seize as soon as they learned
Major contributors to the vocabul-not guilty, to get
bum finger, the truth about me.
ury are the tramp, the gunman, the The word сор In one Lense On the other hand, I had the hoodlum, and the bootlegger, al-originally meant to steal, but has "Herr. Stepanek Where is Herr satisfaction of knowing that my fight though circus troupers, loggers, cattle more recently come to mean get or Stepanck?"
would cost the Nazi propaganda men and railroad workers have sup-procure, as in such phrases as cop machine four million marks the plied necessary and useful words. a plea (plend gulity), cop a 'mope price of a bombing squadron. That, It is
Impossible to locate (make a get-away), and cop an out was the cost of the alm I completed the actual source of slang or cant (procure an alibi). just before leaving Berlin, It was after many weeks have elapsed. The police car used to transport the first German colour film. Now since the language is seldom written, prisoners within city boundaries is Dr. Goebbels will have to scrap it, and new words may be current in known as a paddy wagen (from the He cannot have a "renegade" actor isolated groups long before they find typical Irish-American policemen) starring in his cinemas,
wide acceptance and notice.
gr the Black Marlo. The place is bugged so Micky and Many words have been provided Apart from my midnight scure at Decno case the Ins the frontier, my journey to Rome dess the skiphus, while Jerry gane to eliminate the necessity for calling skipper's greased so the policeman by that prosale nunc. was uneventful. As soon as I found play is safe. The варт trip a bug A few of them are cep, bull or har- a quiet hate, 1 dug my Czech pass- and the dinger blows so Jerry mopes ness bull (uniformed officer), shamus port from its hiding place in one of
"In there," said the conductor. A knock at the door.
I took a grip on myself, hoped that my trembling hands would, not be noticed, and opened the door the caller was a uniformed Nazi frontier guard.
"I am surry to disturb you, but I have seen you in so many films. Would you please give me an pulo- graph?"
We were well into Italy before my nerves were under control uguin,"
Soon
almost
them and they're fogged and skipper (district captain). A my trunks, and, armed with it, called to swamp them The cops tried (from the Hebrew), buttons, juzz,
an the breeze. at the British Embassy.
It was curtains for police detective is a a nose, slim, a Deeno. Micky pulled through and snoop, a tall, a shagger, a soft heel, drew 1 to 20 rap.
an eye, an elbow (from their methad
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I discovered from German Literally translated, this means: of making headway through ቢ Rome that the The place is equipped with a crowd), dick. ΟΣ it particularly friends in Gestapo-kept-a-constant-watch burglar alarm, so Micky and Denno noted for a receptive memory for on the British and French Em-study a method of entrance while faces, a camera eye,
The Jerry remains on the look-out. after the occupation of bassics, and on the offices of district police officer has been bribed, "TAKE IT ON THE Czecho-Slovakia, the subject of my Allied firms. All callers were and the accomplishment of their nationality began to interest officials "investigated.""
task should not Involve danger,
in Berlin.
The
I was followed every day until 1 two clumsily set off an alarm, and
received my British visa ufter being trouble with the
when the bell rings Jerry leaves; no
The 1
Police
HAM"
Intimidation and bealing of criminal in an effort to obtain a con- fession or information is well known
The criminal injects a note of
of Goebbels' Dr. Praschke, one
vouched for
by good Czech friends
for him! aldes, was apparently deputed to hed
in London. On my last evening,
surround and police tried to talk to me about it:
returned to
my hotel to find us arrest Micky and Derno, and shot to the American public as the third
them when they tried to escape. "You ought to take out a German Italian detective waiting for me. The
delective questioned me
Deeno was killed, but Micky re-degree. To the criminal it is the me thoroughly,
kick, a
a Jucking (from black-jack), a passport," he told me one day at the alternately friendly and threatening, covered and was convicted, with an Ufa studios. You speak the German he wanted to know exactly what i indeterminate sentence of from one husing (from soft rubber hose used to prevent bruising), Coney Island language as if it were your own. was doing in Italy, and when I into twenty years. in prison.
(from the
the queer methods of eliciting THE THIRD DEGREE Information), and You have made your name in Ger- tender to return to Germany.
and the more obvious "I'm staying in Rome for some
phrase, a police storm. man plays and Alms. You are
I lied. time
*See-I'll hand you
In such an example the language popular with the Germon public, my passport so that I cannot leaves relatively casual and intelligible. humour Inte many of his cant words. Think it over."
even if I want to."
offered him the German passport In the heat of action, words replace A lock-out, for instance, is a gander; A few weeks later he repeated the I hoped I would never need again. sentences and signals are curt and anything or anyone sought after by canelse. A description of stick-up the police is hot (hot-car, hot-money, suggestion, much more Insistently. He hesitated-but accepted it.
or hold-up as related by a gunman &c.); a lawyer is a mouthpiece or when I still did nothing Berr Hinkel, promised to call at the station for
Is less easy to understand. "H'ist p; a reformatory is a school or next day. the Nazi Commissar for Culture,
Within an hour I had packed, and glom-rank and lam: half C" Turn to Page 2, Fourth Colume tried his powers of persuasion upon checked out at the hotel, and caught
a train northwards. me.
On the way I changed as unob- Somehow the talk was led around trusively as could to a fost train casually, just how many Czechs had me to concentration camps. I was told, fer France, My Czech passport saw sately over the frontler at been, imprisoned since the Occupa- Modane, and, more dead than alive tion.
by this time, I arrived finally at Colais.
But still one great adventure lay ahead of me. For many months It was a dilemma from which Nazi propaganda had hammered Into all Germans detalls of the terrifying I could extrichte myself only by dangers of the voyage to England. dangerous moves. It meant who travels to England travels into bribing Nazi officials and, al- death, they told us. The U-bonis though bribery is rife in Berlin Britain. Mines and bombs get the sink nearly every ship approaching to-day, I could not be sure that rest. Neutral seamen mutiny when the corrupt Nazis who took my asked to sail for Britain. betray me. money would not immediately So I boarded the Channel boat at Calsis with considerable trepidation. I WEB
surprised at the number of my I do not want the men who helped fellow-travellers, and at their non- me to be sent to a concentration chalance.
Waa amazed when, camp. I finally contacted a high hearing their conversation, I found police official and, step by step, care that they were not all British, but fully tested his feelings.
men and women of half a dozen nationalities,
single
not
Two days later, I received from And, out in the Channel, I was The historical records to bo
him a German passport- and I still again amazed to see that not a written after the clash of arma retained my Czech papers.
warship was convoying US has ceased and the smoke of I found a Nazi doctor who con- across the "aca of death,"
There were freighters steaming in battle has cleared away will firmed that my health was bad, He see
several directions,
apparently undia- turbed U-boots
by
and mines; but angle. Y the accession to power of Mr. and manly frankness of Mr. When I landed at Dover, I realised. Winston Churchill. The future Chamberlain, and the gravity something of the extent to which the German people are being duped by historian will do full justice to and courage with which Mr. the Nazis. I realised, too, that Bri the parts played by Mr. Attlee Churchill, undertook his formid-tain still rules the waves. TO-MORROW: and the veteran Mr. Lloyd able task in a situation of peril, George, and will not fail to as said by Mr. Lloyd George, trade in British leaflets Risk
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