A black Mercedes, all diesel growl, drove into the compound as Hogan and his men watched. Hunnicutt and his fellows were just entering their second hour at Stalag 13.

Carter said, "Looks like Gestapo" as the car parked by the office.

"Your ride," Hogan said.

Dietmar Portmann, Karl von Scheider and a voluptuous young woman stepped out. Karl said, "Colonel Hogan, I hand you Trudi Langer. She did fine work for me before I discovered she was doing even better work for your side. And I trust you received my other present today."

"Doctor Hunnicutt, I presume. Nice tall guy but I have a present for you that's even bigger - a wild Siberian tiger."

"I'm Belarusian and Colonel Hogan knows it." Marya stood right beside Hogan, having approached him unheard. Assassin's silence. "You must be the infamous General von Scheider."

"At your service."

"As lackey of Hitler your signature is on the Commissar Order."

Von Scheider blushed. "That is true."

"You could have refused to sign it. The blood of my father ... and countless fellow citizens ... is on your hands!"

If anyone could fire death rays, thought Hogan, Karl would already be dead from Marya's discharge.

"Here come the men we want," Hogan said. A smug Mundesinger and a very dejected-looking Klink were approaching the Kommandantur. Funke, walking beside Klink, looked mildly surprised on seeing his General.

Mundesinger quickened his pace and saluted von Scheider. "Herr Generaloberst, I am Colonel Piligrim..."

"Step into Klink's office, the lot of you."

Inside, Mundesinger was first to speak. "Herr Generaloberst, as a member of the Inspector-General I have toured this camp and found many..."

"Save it for the Inspector-General himself," Marya said. "Tell us about your kid brother."

Mundesinger said, "He works at a classified..."

"He's a radio technician at the Berghof. You told me yourself."

Mundesinger's ears, then face, went red. "I don't remember telling you."

"You drink so much you have blackouts."

"And I think you have double vision," Hogan added. "You see two trouble spots when there's only one. If Colonel Klink ran this place badly we'd all have escaped long ago, and speaking of escape that's something everyone here, guest and host, may have to do in two days."

Klink said, "What are you talking about, Hogan?"

"I've been ordered to take myself and my men out of here in less than 45 hours."

Von Scheider said, "Hogan has been involved in espionage and sabotage activities around Hammelburg since he arrived here 21 months ago. If you want to stay alive, Klink, you need to listen to what Hogan and his tiger lady..."

"Marya Parmanova. Klink and I have already met."

"...and I have to say."

Among the Germans in the office, Klink, Gruber and Funke were pale while Mundesinger was red. Mundesinger said, "Surely if this was a center ... I'd have found evidence." His face looked even more engorged as he finished, with a look that screamed me and my loose lips.

Hogan grinned. "We clean up after ourselves."

Schultz was standing by the door. He said, "All these years of saying 'nothing,' I lied. I figured out these Jolly Jokers long ago."

"Schultz, you knew all along and did nothing?" Klink yelled. "That is treason!"

Hogan said, "Klink, you may be the most foolish colonel in the German military and the second most foolish among all the belligerent powers..."

Newkirk, head down as if he was ashamed, said, "Rather distant second, I have to say."

Hogan went on, "But you have a latent intelligence which grew the second that grass crumbled in your hand this morning. Use it now."

Von Scheider said, "Colonel Klink, Germany will burn very soon unless our plan to stop the war works. We need your help."

"What can I do?"

"First, tell us: Can Gruber be trusted?"

Klink looked at his second-in-command as if he was about to ask permission. Gruber nodded.

Klink said, "Six weeks ago I caught Captain Gruber writing unflattering things about National Socialism in his diary. I reprimanded him, warned him about eyes in the walls."

Hogan rubbed his right ear.

"But you did nothing else?" von Scheider asked.

"No, sir. It was just a talk between the two of us. Nothing was put on his record."

"Herr Kommandant," Schultz said softly, "doing nothing was doing something."

Klink said, "Herr Generaloberst, is doing nothing what you want of us?"

"In a way, yes. Hogan and some of his men will be leaving with me. If anyone asks, go ahead and say I took them. Continue to run this camp as normal through tomorrow."

"And prepare to evacuate the day after," Hogan said. "Newkirk will be in charge. Klink, you and your men will either have to join the Underground or go into hiding. If the Gestapo catches you, Hochstetter may be the least of your problems."

In his first time, Hogan and his Heroes had airlifted food to Holland over the last days of war, unaware that most of their former keepers - including Klink, Gruber, Schultz, and Langenscheidt - had been murdered by the Gestapo. Hochstetter denied any involvement and was outraged by the summary nature of the executions (he'd wanted documented interrogations).

Von Scheider said, "Colonel Hogan, pick who you want and prepare to go. I'd like to leave within half an hour."

For a second or two, Klink looked at Hogan with horror-wide eyes, like those of a small child being separated from parents. Then he firmed his expression and saluted.

"Good luck, Colonel Hogan. Good luck to us all."