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二战老兵200次逃出集中营 只为与德国女友相会

2012-10-25来源:mirror

it is one of the most astonishing love stories of the Second World War.
这是二战期间最令人惊叹的爱情故事之一。

British soldier Horace Greasley was so besotted with his German sweetheart he would risk death by Nazi firing squad by sneaking out of his prisoner of war camp to see her.
英国士兵贺拉斯·格里斯利是如此深爱他的德国女友,所以他甘愿冒着被纳粹行刑队发现的死亡危险,也要溜出战俘营去见她。

Removing the wooden bars from his cell window before crawling under the wire fence, he defied his ruthless captors by meeting lover Rosa Rauchback more than 200 times.
搬开他牢房窗口的木条,再从铁丝网下爬过,他背着凶残的看守者去见女友罗莎·拉什贝克超过200多次。

二战老兵200次逃出集中营 只为与德国女友相会

Incredibly, Horace – who was famously photographed coming face-to-face with SS Nazi brute Heinrich Himmler – crept back into the camp under their noses each time.
你可能不相信,当时的贺拉斯其实很出名,他曾经与纳粹党卫军里的恐怖人物海因里希·希姆莱面对面见过还拍了照,而他每次都是在党卫军眼鼻子底下偷偷回到军营。

The confrontation was captured on camera by a German war correspondent and the photo is one of the most iconic of the war.
这个他与希姆莱对抗的场景曾被一个德国战地记者拍了下来,该照片也成为了二战中最具有代表性的照片之一。

Now his remarkable exploits are being turned into a big Hollywood movie with stars Robert Pattinson and Alex Pettyfer up to play him.
如今他的这段光辉事迹将被拍成一部好莱坞大片,扮演他的男星人选包括《暮光之城》罗伯特·帕丁森和模特亚历克斯·佩蒂弗。

Horace was captured by Hitler’s forces during the British retreat to Dunkirk in 1940. He first met Rosa at a marble quarry labour camp in Silesia, then part of eastern Germany, where she worked as a translator.
贺拉斯是在1940年英国敦刻尔克撤退时被希特勒的部队抓获的。他第一次见到罗莎是在西里西亚的一个大理石采石场劳动营,那里地处德国的东部,她在那儿担任翻译