“You missed your train to Berlin, mein Captain,” the Baroness whimsically jests in her strained German.
“I need shelter, Madame. I have left the German army.”
No longer having to feign respect and fear for the occupiers of her country, the Baroness laughs with a sardonic glee which surprises the Captain. She had always treated his superior and other German officers with such respect. Now the tide has turned.
“No longer able to afford the best hotel? A little shy about speaking German? Your uniform no longer commanding esteem? Well come in, Captain. I would hate to see such a handsome lad as you in a prisoner of war camp.”
What the Baroness did not know, but Marie did, was that Gerhard Strunk was not the innocent young officer forced into war as portrayed. No, Captain Strunk was the sup
