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[00:03.71]My Berlin diary for December 2 was limited to four words.
[00:12.06]"Only three more days!"
[00:18.14]December 3:The Foreign Office still holding up my passport and exit visa
[00:27.58]which worries me.Did my last broadcast from Berlin tonight.
[00:35.82]Berlin, December 4: Got my passport and official permit to leave tomorrow
[00:46.26]Nothing to do now but pack."
[00:50.11]For weeks I had thought over how to get my diaries safely out of Berlin
[00:57.78]Sometimes I thought I ought to destroy them before leaving
[01:03.65]There was enough in them to get me hanged
[01:08.51]if the Gestapo ever discovered them.
[01:13.37]The morning I received my passport and exit visa
[01:19.74]I realized I had less than twenty-four hours
[01:25.79]to figure out a way of getting my Berlin diaries out.
[01:32.16]Suddenly, later that morning, the solution became clear
[01:39.00]It was a risk, but life in the Third Reich had always been a risk.
[01:46.56]It was worth a try.
[01:50.02]I laid out the diaries in two big steel suitcases I had bought
[01:58.08]Over them I placed a number of my broadcast scripts
[02:04.63]each page of which had been stamped by the military and civilian censors
[02:12.19]as passed for broadcast.
[02:16.26]On top I put a few General Staff maps I had picked up from friends
[02:23.82]Then I phoned the Gestapo Headquarters
[02:28.64]I had a couple of suitcases full of my dispatches
[02:34.80]broadcasts and notes that I wanted to take out of the country,
[02:40.96]I told them. As I was flying off early the next day
[02:48.80]there would be no time for Gestapo officials at the airport
[02:55.18]to go over the contents.
[02:59.64]Would they take a look now, if I brought them over;
[03:05.40]and if they approved,put a Gestapo seal on the suitcases
[03:12.56]so I wouldn't be held up at the airport?
[03:17.39]"Bring them over." the official said
[03:22.64]At Gestapo headquarters,
[03:27.00]the two officials who handled me immediately seized my maps
[03:34.38]I apologized. "I had forgotten," I said, "that I had put them in."
[03:42.12]They had been very valuable to me in reporting the army's great victories
[03:49.28]I realized I shouldn't take out General Staff maps
[03:55.55]"What else you've got here?" one of the men said,
[04:01.20]putting his hand on the pile of papers.
[04:05.84]"The texts of my broadcasts," I said, " ... every page, as you can see,
[04:13.30]stamped for approval by the High Command and two ministries
[04:20.24]Both men studied the censors' stamps.
[04:26.08]I could see they were impressed.
[04:30.83]They put their hands in a little deeper,
[04:36.59]each man now looking into a suitcase.
[04:41.74]Soon, they would reach the diaries.
[04:47.50]I now wished I had not come.
[04:51.74]I felt myself beginning to sweat.
[04:56.78]I had deliberately got myself into this jam. What a fool!
[05:04.85]"You reported on the German army?"
[05:10.90]one of the officials looked up to ask.
[05:15.07]"All the way to Paris," I said. "A great army it was,
[05:21.62]and a great story for me. It will go down in history!"
[05:28.07]That settled everything.
[05:32.24]They put half a dozen Gestapo seals on my suitcases.
[05:38.00]I tried not to thank them too much.
[05:43.08]Outside, I called a taxi and drove away.
[05:48.95]Everything had worked out as I had planned.
[05:54.31]The last entry I would ever make in my diary from Hitler's Berlin
[06:01.04]"December 5: It was still dark and a storm was blowing in
[06:10.12]when I left for the airport this morning ..."
[06:14.65]At the customs there was literally an army of officials.
[06:22.10]I opened the two bags with my personal effects,
[06:27.58]and after looking through them,
[06:31.75]two officials chalked a sign of approval on them.
[06:37.22]I noticed they were from the Gestapo.
[06:41.47]They pointed to the two suitcases full of my diaries.
[06:47.16]"Open them up!" One of them thundered in a rude tone.
[06:53.42]"I can't," I said. "They're sealed--by the Gestapo."