So sorry I have been a while updating it has been manic lately! Enjoy!
It seemed like a lifetime waiting for the woman behind the reception desk to try and translate the document. This didn't bother Sandra too much as she knew by the position of the receptionist's glasses, perched over her nose, her eyes squinting at the yellowed fragmented document that she was being more than through.
She handed it back to Sandra "Miss Pullman it says that the Mr Anderson and Mr Pendle were caught by the Nazi guards on the 14th of February they were found with weapons of destruction, assuming that they were there to blow the camp up the gestapo took them as prisoners along with 13 other British officers who were killed instantly. This document states that Pendle and Anderson were too dangerous so instead of killing them the Nazi officers used them as a force of information, tortured them until they gave the desired information about Britain's tactics". Her German accent was thick but understandable both Gerry and Sandra forgot that her mother tongue was not English.
"What so you mean they were spies for the Gerry's?" Gerry said.
"Effectively, but here is the thing Mr Standing, there is no trace of them after this day as far as we can tell no secret British information was passed over and used by the Germans".
"So is there any way we can find out what the Germans used Anderson and Pendle for, and how they escaped" Sandra asked.
"Luckily for you the Nazi guards kept the roll call documents and they are all filed in the archive" Gerry rolled his eyes at the thought of having to go back down there to retrieve the documents.
"If a person or persons failed to turn up to roll call three times they were investigated now with Pendle and Anderson disappearing from all records and it being virtually impossible to escape as the ditches and trenches but around the camp before they would even be able to access the barbed wire an invest aging would defiantly have been conducted" she said putting her ruby red slim line glasses on her head and leading Gerry and Sandra out of the reception back into the archives.
Once again the dust got the better of Gerry and his violent coughing concerned the receptionist "Will he be alright" she asked Sandra.
"Yeah, don't worry about him its either attention, old age or both" she said.
"I will have you know it is asthma" he butted in between coughing his guts up.
"And who's fault is that" Sandra said taking hold of the book she was handed.
"As you can see a few days before the men disappeared there was an attempted escape, the man was a 37 year old Jew who's roll call number was 234696, if we look at the roll call sheets we can see Pendle was 592567 and Anderson was 592568 and three days later they fail to turn up to the roll call square. Following the investigation why they did not appear it is noted that there was a successful break out as Pendle's food sack is found in the trench wells. There is no more information in the camp record of them" she finished.
"What do you thin happened to them" Gerry asked.
"It is hard to say, if they had been revealed as spies they would have not been able to return home to UK as they would be traitors and the Nazi's were after them so they could not have gone too far, in many cases of escape they stay relatively close to the camp go to local towns and lay very low, perhaps it is worth asking the about the towns records".
"Thank you very much for your help, it is most appreciated, we better be getting to the hotel now" Sandra said shaking the woman's hand.
"Yes thank you very much" Gerry said.
Sandra and Gerry caught the bus from the camp back the hotel "Christ Gerry, this case is really impossible" Sandra sighed as they piled off the bus with the rest of the German commuters.
"What happened to not giving up, besides we are here now so I tell you what we will check out the beer garden near the hotel and head into town tomorrow and see if there is any trace on Anderson and Pendle" he said very pleased he thought this plan up by himself.
"You know what Gerry that is not a bad idea at all, give me half an hour to get changed and come and call for me" she said following Gerry into the hotel.
Both of them failed to notice the dark hooded figure that had followed them all the way from Dachau.