Hey everyone! Okay, so I completely fell in love with this movie the first time I saw it and this story has been floating around in my mind ever since then. This is going to be a Stiglitz/OC...before you hit the back button bare with me. Just read it...I promise you will like it. Thanks!
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Disclaimer: I do not own Inglourious Basterds...Mr. Tarantino does.
Prologue
It was bad enough to be German-American and living in the United States during the 1930s and 40s, but to be German-American and Italian-American was just asking for it. Unfortunately, for Elizabeth Moretti and her family that was exactly what they were.
Her father's family had come over from Italy before he was born and he was a pharmacist by trade. Her mother's family left Germany around the same time. Both of her parents were born in America and had lived in Baltimore, Maryland their whole lives, but that did not matter to some. In Baltimore getting beaten up because you were Italian, Polish, German, Jewish, etc. before the war was common, but not as bad as it was in New York City and Boston.
Elizabeth had to learn to speak German and Italian at an early age. Both sets of grandparents could speak a little English, but speaking in their perspective native tongues came much more easily to them. She could speak both languages without any trace of an American accent, which was one reason the O.S.S. had been so interested in her when she applied for a transfer from the W.A.V.E.S.
It wasn't that Elizabeth disliked being in the W.A.V.E.S.; in fact she had adored every minute of it, and even had attained the rank of Lieutenant in an extremely short amount of time. However, after Pearl Harbor, being constantly surrounded by ships and sailors caused painful memories and horrible flashbacks that had started affecting her duties, so instead of eventually having to be hospitalized she chose to apply for a transfer.
The O.S.S. snatched her up quickly and started training her for espionage. She was taught how to speak French and soon learned that she would be stationed in between Paris and a small town called Nadine. She was to simply blend in and observe German military movements.
She was only supposed to stay there for a year, but she hadn't planned on ever having to deal with a group of bastards.
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