Soul to the Rhine

Chapter 79 Back
Rosia specially brought many identification documents and documents before coming.

Heinrich really did her a favor, in this case no one really believed that she was German just because she spoke German, and with the identification papers, everything was easy to say.

The leading soldier took her certificate and looked at it over and over for a long time. Rosia did not dare to move and could only look at him with a smile that was pleasing but not too flattering.

After a long time, the soldier put one of the certificates into his pocket, returned the others to her, and said with a serious expression: "Madam, we will strictly examine your identity. If this is fake, I believe it." You should know what kind of punishment you will get. Before that, you have to go in with our soldiers and wait for Captain Legg."

"Yes, thank you!"

Rosia quickly got up from the ground. The Germans always considered themselves to be the highest race and did not treat their own people as harshly as other ethnic groups.

She held her backpack and followed the two soldiers step by step. Before entering, she was asked to check her package and body for any dangerous items.

At the mention of this, Rosia's body stiffened again.How could a home girl go to a dangerous place over mountains and ridges without any self-defense weapons? In fact, the pistol Heinrich gave her was hidden in the high leather boots she wore.

Two soldiers made way for her to check first.

Rosia's heart beat like a drum, and every step she took seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. Her mind was frantically thinking of all the possible reasons and excuses, but none of them worked.

"Madam, you look a little nervous." The soldier next to her said: "Please rest assured that the soldiers of the Third Reich are all excellent soldiers with extremely high qualities and will not do any rude behavior to you. If there is no special The reason is, please calm down."

Rosia could only give him a very forced smile.

Not far from the entrance is a small black room. The location of this concentration camp is very strange. It is impossible to build exquisite buildings like those in the city in the mountains. This small black room gives Rosia the feeling of being in a remote mountain village in the 30s and [-]s. Small hut.

Rosia held her backpack and opened the door nervously, making a "squeak" sound. The room was very neat and clean, and not far away there was a very young woman arranging a small couch.After hearing the voice, she raised her head indifferently, then quickly walked over and bent down towards the soldier without saying a word the whole time, just like a lifeless puppet.

"Annie, I need you to check on this lady. Then, she will be waiting for Captain Legg here."

The young woman named Annie had no expression on her face, she just nodded slightly, and she never looked at them from the beginning to the end.

The soldier walked away again with his gun on his shoulder. Anne put her hands flat in her sleeves without looking at Rosia. She turned around and silently entered the room again, with her big shawl and scarf wrapped so tightly that her head was almost invisible.

Rosia moved her boots with the gun hidden a little uneasily, then tugged on the hem of her cotton skirt, and then slowly followed her in.

Annie stopped next to a wall, stretched out her hand and pulled the cotton, oil and hemp rope on the wall, and the light suddenly lit up in the room.

The light immediately poured down from the roof. Annie walked over quickly, took the backpack she had been holding in her arms, put it on the table, and opened it one by one to check.The careful look made Rosia have the urge to take off her boots and throw them out immediately.

Annie's movements were very fast. She didn't find any dangerous items and put them all back again, organizing them very neatly.

Next came the body. Rosia's heartbeat had never calmed down since just now. She even began to think about whether to knock this Anne unconscious. Of course, this was just a ridiculous idea. If it was really checked out, in addition to begging for mercy, she would also There is no other way.

Anne's hands searched her scarf, then her pockets, the hem of her skirt, and finally her boots.

Rosia's legs were shaking uncontrollably.

Finally, Annie's hand stopped at the bulging position. She seemed to be stunned, and then suddenly raised her head, and her gray-blue eyes shot sharply at Rosia.

Rosia's heart skipped a beat, and she was about to shout something in her throat, but she was shocked to find that Annie had already stood up, with no expression on her face. She wiped her hands on the big scarf, and then pointed to the wooden table next to the table. Chair: "Just sit there and wait. Captain Legg never knows when he will come."

……

When she sat on the cold chair, she still had a vague and unreal feeling.

Did Anne notice it or pretend not to see it?

No, she must have found out.Rosia looked at the silent figure sitting on another chair, wondering why she pretended not to see it. Is it because she was also forced to stay here?Or maybe she didn't like that Captain Legg and hoped that someone would come over and attack him?
Rosia couldn't see through Annie's thoughts. If she really came for a sneak attack, something would really happen, and Annie, as an inspector, would definitely not be able to escape her involvement.

But these have nothing to do with her anymore. Her only purpose now is to find Pino.

The waiting became very long as time continued to pass. The morning passed quickly, and Captain Legg did not show up. She stood on tiptoe in the room anxiously, but there was nothing she could do.

Two or three more hours later, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. Rosia couldn't sit still any longer. She turned around and asked the figure who had never moved: "I'm sorry, when will Captain Legg come back?"

Annie raised her head silently, looked at her with deep gray eyes, shook her head, and returned to the dead silence before.

Rosia looked really worried and asked again: "So, can you tell me where he went?"

Anne didn't even look up this time and shook her head again.

Rosia was speechless. After looking at her for a few seconds, she suddenly stretched out her hand and scratched her hair irritably, then got up and opened the door to go out.

Unexpectedly, there were two soldiers standing at the door. As soon as she opened the door, she met two icy eyes, and she was frightened out of her wits.At this moment, she seemed to understand why Annie didn't speak.

"Uh, that..." Rosia froze for a moment, then forced a smile: "I just want to ask when Captain Legg will be back."

The two soldiers looked at each other, and one of them said: "Captain Legg has left, didn't you know?"

"What? Let's go..." Rosia let out an exclamation out of control. When she got the soldier's displeased gaze, she almost couldn't control her distorted expression.

"I'm really sorry. I'm so...excited. I'm sorry. When did Captain Legg leave? Where did he go?" Rosia was afraid that they wouldn't want to say it, so she tried her best to put on a sad expression. In fact, she was really sad now. : "I'm too anxious. I'm very afraid that something will happen to my brother. He is only five years old, so he will definitely be scared."

The two soldiers didn't sound very happy, but they still answered patiently: "Captain Legg has already taken the bus to Poland in the morning, just to deliver the Jewish fugitives captured in Paris some time ago. If you are in a hurry, I will send you this afternoon." There will be a train to Poland and we can help you arrange it.”

Rosia was so angry that her heart, liver and lungs hurt together, and she left in the morning, but no one told her, and she didn't dare to move around because she was carrying a gun, so she just sat in the house dryly for most of the day .

This was bad luck after all, she was so angry that her brain was about to explode.

But there was no other way, other than powerlessness or powerlessness, she managed to calm down the anger in her heart, and said to the two soldiers with a tragic expression: "Then, thank you, I am really in a hurry."

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when she got the ticket. There was no train here, so she had to run like crazy all the way to the town.

Because she took a shortcut, she also saw many soldiers on the way monitoring a large number of Jews working, seemingly mining stone.She didn't have time to stop and look, and she didn't have the courage to study the tragic life of the Jews under the watchful eyes of the SS, so she ran as fast as she could with just one breath.

By the time she arrived in the town, she had almost become a madman. Many people on the roadside looked at her in surprise. Rosia shook the sweat off her head, plucked up her energy again and rushed to the train that was about to leave.

This journey took away her anger, resentment, anger, and all kinds of anger. Now she is tired and tired, sweating.

Thinking about it, she had never encountered anything so terrible and sad in her two lifetimes, nor had she ever been in such pain.But if you think about it more carefully, these are all minor. The most difficult thing is how to find Pino and how to rescue him after finding him.

The Gestapo and the Skeleton Division were all mortal enemies of the Jews, and they were also people she never wanted to see again in her life.

The thought of the concentration camp made her hair stand on end and she couldn't help but tremble all over.The movies she had seen before kept replaying in her mind, and the various horrific and cruel scenes in them made her almost unable to muster any courage.

Rosia tightly grasped the backpack in her arms. She was already prepared for the worst. If Pino was really tested for Jewish ancestry and any identification was useless, she could only try to You can't buy your life with money.

She still remembered that two years ago, Henry's life was bought by Dean Fritz, and in the movie Schindler's List, Schindler also bought the lives of more than 1000 Jews with money.She didn't know if this method was still feasible, and she didn't know if the money she had with her was enough. In short, everything would have to wait until Poland, she said after finding Pino.

The train drove all night, and I slept soundly on the train. The next day, the train arrived in Warsaw.

Coming to this memorable place again, Rosia felt nothing but tears of blood and absolutely bad memories.Of course, she still misses Dean Fritz, who is now in prison, and colleagues who have worked together for a long time.

Some of Warsaw's former ruins have been cleared away, but the two-year armistice still hasn't made it better, but has made it even more smoky.

Walking on the streets, all you see are frightened and hurried Poles and the extremely arrogant Gestapo. There is no sign of a Jew.There are still German tanks and armored vehicles parked on some roadsides, with large black cloth covering them, and the shape of the protruding gun barrels can still be clearly seen.

Rosia didn't dare to stay on the street, she wanted to find a place to hide now.

When we arrived at the place where we used to work, the Warsaw branch, it was indeed sealed as Dean Fritz said. The door was locked tightly, and there was darkness and silence inside.The hotel opposite the hospital is still open, but the situation is not very good. The once magnificent door has been horribly damaged. Despite efforts to repair it, the bullet marks left on the riddled wall are still there. It's scary.

Looking at Warsaw, it seems that she can fully imagine what kind of catastrophes this century-old city has experienced, but she cannot imagine how it survived those painful years.

She didn't stay long and took the car to the police station again.

Compared to France, Poland was a huge prison where Jews were imprisoned. There were so many concentration camps that she couldn't even count them. She didn't even know where to start.

However, after arriving at the police station, she discovered what Poland had become. The entire police station was full of Germans, and there was not even a trace of a Polish person.Or maybe there were Poles here, but she didn't see any of them.

A room full of Gestapo were looking at her, which made her so nervous that she couldn't even make a sound.

After almost a minute, a Gestapo suddenly walked out from behind the door, holding a document in his hand. Everyone else stood up and saluted when they saw him.

Rosia resisted the urge to run away and took two steps inside. The Gestapo seemed to be about to go out. He strode over and suddenly stopped when he passed by her.

Rosia's heart couldn't stop beating. Although she was neither Jewish nor Polish, she had seen their ferocity so much that her instinct was still fear.

The two looked at each other and were stunned.

The Gestapo on the opposite side had a subtle expression, but Rosia was purely because this person looked familiar.

"Miss Franti!"

Familiar accent, familiar black uniform, familiar appearance.

Almost the moment he was speaking, Rosia remembered who he was in a flash in his head.

Eric!
Eric the Gestapo whom I met several times in Poland!

To be honest, she has seen too many handsome guys in the past few years, and they are all handsome men in uniforms. They are either in slate gray Wehrmacht uniforms or black SS uniforms, which makes her a little face-blind.However, she still had some impression of Eric because she had seen him quite a few times.She saw him when she was seeing Lisa off in Germany, when she came to the station in Warsaw, when Dill was injured in the arm, and when the Gestapo came to the hospital to arrest him.

Later, it was learned from Werner that they were friends, but since then she went to France and never saw each other again.

"Uh, hello!" Rosia was startled when she saw his epaulettes and job titles.

Eric handed the document in his hand to the person next to him and showed a kind smile: "So, can I have the honor to treat you to a cup of coffee?"

(End of this chapter)