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Looking Backward

Historians make us acquainted with stirring scenes and events of former times in which famous men played their parts. Ima- gination invests such episodes with an atmosphere like that which the dramatist contrives

I ESCAPED

FROM GERMANY

MY

TY heart thumped as I lay in my sleeping-com-. partment on the Berlin- Rome express.

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It was midnight. In few minutes Ave should steam out of the Brenner station over the border into Italy.

Karl Stepanek, one of

·Germany's most popular. actors, recently escaped to Britain from Berlin and is telling the full story of war- lime Germany.

Stepanek is a Czech by birth, and lived in Germany for ten years. He was often a personal guest of Hitlera.

To-day he tells the thrilling story of his journey to Lon-

In a few minutes I should be don.... free.

My journey was being mado save 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 tials in order to get an exit-permit, plenty of spas Inside Germany. I was politely told that there were

*

✡

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 filnis In Czech fatherland.

a neutral country.

Then the trip would be "In the in-

Sull, the Gestapo has long cars

and sometimes it likes to play with terests of the State." The money I

ita prey. Many last minute arrests

are made on frontiers.

the

I tried not to

think of these ns.

I lay and waited..

The Customs

by.

KARL STEPANEK Germany's Greatest Movie Star

carned

abroad

could be used by

the

Reichsbank,

MAR

FALGAR

The

which desperately j•* needed foreign

currency.

would be a patrio

tle

undertaking.

RIVER PLANE

Room for More

have

Yanks

a word

formit

THE jargon of the American tells the complete story. He says: "I underworld is a mixture of held him up and robbed him was rency officials had passed my com- pulled mor sure at an all com grammatical rules, and is pri-words used to describe the act of

out any conscious adherence to slang, cant and argot used with-discovered and had to run, but I

got fifty dollars," partment without stopping. Doubt, an offer from an Italian film company murily a.language of expedience | leaving: to take on the lam, to A criminal has almost innumerable

Inspector and, cur-

I went away and

less they knew me as an actor well to make a picture in Rome. liked in Berlin, Better not annoy. uny friend of the leaders!

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

Nazis to seize as soon as they learned

.the truth about me.

Hollywood

sense

characterised by terseness of scram, to I said goodbye to my Berlin flat, phrase and simplicity of de-and to breeze--to mention a few. looked wistfully at the handsome

screw,

to blow, to mope, thought to my bungalow on the cumulation of words borrowedtion total in my bank-book, gave a last scription. It is a strange ac- displayed and paraded for identifica

The show-up, where suspects BIC Fanker Lake in Carinthia. All these from every social group in every

by possessions, won by years of hard geographical area of the Engene is pointed out by

victims, is the stage, or work, I had to leave behind for the fish-speaking world.

from the brilliant spot- and raised platform. When victim he is Major contributors to the vocabul-not guilty, to get a bum Anger,

anid to get the finger, and if he is "Herr Stepanck! Where is Herr satisfaction of knowing that my flight though circus troupers, loggers, cattle more recently come to mean got ur On the other hand, I had the hoodlum, and the bootlegger, al-originally meant to steal, but has

ory are the tramp, the gunman, the The word cop In one Stepanck?...

would cost the Nazi propaganda men and railroad workers have sup- procure, as in such phrases as cop machine four million price of a bombing squadron. That, marks the

plied

necessery, and unetul words. was the cost of the aim I completed the actual source of slang or cant (procure an alibi).

It is almost impossible to locate (make a get-away), and cop an out a plea (plead guilty), cop a mope just before leaving Berlin. It was after many the Arst German colour. alm. Now since the language is seldom written, weeks have elapsed, Dr. Goebbels will have to scrap it. and new words may be current in He cannot have a "renegade" actor isolated groups long before they find starring in his cinemas.

wide acceptance and notice. Apart from my midnight scare at Deeno case the ins while Jerry gau-to eliminate the necessity for calling The place is bugged so Micky and

or the Black Moria.

"In there," said the conductor. A knock at the door.

I took a grip on myself, hoped that my trembling hands would

to surround the lifelike presenta / not be noticed, and opened the the frontier, my journey to Rome ders, The skipper's greased so the

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 a perspective that is denied to us at the moment, and estimate their significance with a better sense of proportion.

Some future Gibbon Macaulay will comment upon the mental and moral aberrations for

Nazi frontier guard. door the caller was a uniformed

prisoners within tity boundaries is The police car used to transport own us a paddy wagon (from the typical Irish-American policemen)

was uneventful. As soon as I found play is safe. The saps trip a bug A few of them are cop, bull or hor- Many words have been provided a quiet hotel, I dug my Czech pass- and the dinger blows so Jerry mop:sness bull (uniformed officer), shamus policeman by that prosaic name,

1 port from its hiding place in one of

have seen you in so many films "I am sorry to disturb you, but Would you please give me on auto- graph?"

in Berlin.

I

☆

HAM"

at the British Embassy." my trunks, and, armed with it. called heat for him! The cops tried (from, the Hebrew), buttons, inzz, to swamp them and they're fogged and skipper (district captain). A un the breeze. It was curtains for police detective is a nose, silm, a Deeno, Micky pulled through and snoop, a tall, a shagger, a soft heel, I discovered from German

drew 1 to 20

rap. We were well into Italy before my friends in Rome that the

Literally translated, this means:

an eye, an elbow (from their method nerves were under control again.

of making headway The place is equipped with a crowd), Gestapo kept a constant watch burglar alarm, so Micky and-Denno noted for a receptive memory for

through on the British and French Em-study a method of entrance while faces, a camera eye,

dick, or if particularly Czecho-Slovakia, the subject of my Allied firms. All callers were and, the accomplishment of their

Soon after the occupation

of bassies, and on the offices of district police officer has been bribed, TAKE IT ON THE

Jerry remains on the look-out The nationality began to interest officials investigated"

task should not involve I was followed every day until two clumsily set off na alarm, and danger. The Dr. Proschke, one of Goebbels' received my British visn after being when the bell rings Jerry leaves: no

vouched for by good Czech friends trouble with aldes, was apparently deputed to talk to me about it.

in London. On my last evening, 1 The police tried to surround and criminal in an effort to obtain a con- the police for him! Intimidation and beating of a returned "You ought to take out a German Hollan detective walding for me. The them when they tried to escape, to the American public as the third to my hotel to find an arrest Micky and Deeno, and shot fcrsion or information is well known passport," he told me one day at the detective questioned me thoroughly, Deeno was killed, but Micky ze degree. To the criminal it is the Ufa studios. You speak the German alternately friendly and threatenint covered and was convicted, with an kick,

he wanted to know language as if I were your own, was doing In

a jacking (from black-Jack), § exactly what indeterminate sentence of from one sing (from You have made your name in Ger. tended to return to when I into twenty years in prison.

soft rubber hose used to prevent bruising), to Germany.

Coney Island man plays and films. You "I'm staying in Rome for some THE THIRD DEGREE

(from the queer methods of eliciting which the German people had popular with the German pubile. my passport so that I cannot leave is relatively casual and intelligible. humour into many of his cant words. time," iled, "See-l hund you

Information), and the more obvious phrase, a police storm.

or

long been noted. He will trace the steps by which they became

Think it'over."

tion.

are

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and glom-rank and lom: half a C."Turn to Page 2, Fourth Golumn

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

In such an example the language even if I want to."

The criminal injects a note of A few weeks later he repeated the hoped I would never need again. sentences and signals are curt and anything or anyone sought after by offered him the German passport In the heat of action, words replace A look-out, for instance, is a gander; the victims of domestic regi-When I still did nothing Herr Hinkel, promised to call at the station for or hold-up as related by a gunman &c.); a lawyer is a mouthpiece or suggestion, much more insistently. He hesitated-but accepted it. I concise. A description of a stick-up the pollee is hot (hot-car, hot-money, mentation and later on the the Nazi Commissar for Culture, next day. slavish tools of ambitious mili- tried his powers of persuasion upon checked out at the hotel, and caught

Within

la less easy to understand. "Hist p; a reformatory is a school or an hour I had packed, tary leaders. He will tell how me.

# train northwards. these adventurers proclaiming

Somehow the talk was led around trusively as I could to a fast train On the way I changed as unob- themselves the divinely appoint-

to concentration camps. I was told, for France, My Czech passport saw ed guides and rulers of the been imprisoned since the Occupa- Modane, and, more dead than alive

casually, just how many Czechs had me

safely Over the frontier nt "peerless" German race, CX-

by this time, I arrived Brially at tinguished the spirit of liberty

Calais, in that country. He will give a

But still one great adventure lay ahead of me. vivid account of the long series

For many months It was a dilemma from which Nazi propaganda had hammered into of outragos inflicted by Germany

I could extricate myself only by dangers of the voyage to England. all' Germans details of the terrifying upon her neighbours, of the bribing Nazi officials and, al- death, they told us. The U-boats dangerous moves. It meant who travels to England travels into unavailing efforts of the Western though bribery is rife in Berlin Britain. Mines and bombs get the Powers in the interest of peace to-day, I could not be sure that rest, Neutral seamen mutiny when sink nearly every ship approaching and international justice, and of the corrupt Nazis who took my asked to sull for Britain. their decision to take up arms in money would not immediately So I boarded the Channel boat at defence of civilization. All this

with considerable trepidation. will be by way of preface or

I do not want the men who helped fellow-travellers, and at their non- I was surprised at the number of my introduction to the historian's camp. I finally contacted a high hearing their conversation, I found me to be sent to a concentration chalance. I was amazed when, pen-picture describing the courae fully tested his feelings.

pollée official and, step by step, care that they were not all British, but of the great conflict,

men and women of half a dozen nationalities.

betray me.

The historical records to be him a German passport and I still Two days later, I received from written after the clash of arms retained my Czech papers. has ceased and the smoke of battle has cleared away will narrate the events that led to

I found a Nazi doctor who con

firmed that my health was bad. He

Calais

And, out in the Chunnel, I was @gain amazed to see that not a single warship was convoying us several directions, apparently undis- across the "aca of death."

There were freighters steaming in

When I landed at Dover, I realised turbed by U-boats and nines; but, not a single warship. something of the extent la which the the Nazis. I realised, too, that Bri- German people are being duped by tain still rules the waves.

TO-MORROW:

the accession to power of Mr. and manly frankness of Mr. Winston Churchill. The future Chamberlain, and the gravity historian will do full justice to and courage with which Mr. the parts played by Mr. Attice Churchill undertook his formid und the veteran Mr Lloyd able task in a situation of peril, George, and will not fail to as said by Mr. Lloyd Coorge, Air-raid fears in Berlin record the approval by their without any parallel in our long ing prison to hear the B.B.C trade in British leaflets-Risk- fellow countrymen of the dignity history.

broadcasts A friend in danger.

ABNER OFAN

"I told the chof what you said, sir!”