The Great Escape
“That had happened once at Barth when the Germans suddenly ran into the compound and a couple of people down a tunnel didn’t have time to get up again. The count showed they were missing, and the tunnel was found because of it. He sent an order around that in the event of a snap appell, everyone was to dawdle as much as possible, and Floody fixed an emergency procedure for the men underground.
The timing was uncanny. A score of guards marched in for a snap appell in the early afternoon a couple ...of days later. If the fools had done it properly they might have trapped the day shift underground, but with boneheaded Teutonic thoroughness they had to go through the usual bullshine routine of falling in by the gate, numbering off from left to right, and then dismissing to clear the prisoners out of the huts. Harsh saw them from 104, and Langford went through the new drill. He had the trap up in a moment and called down the shaft the one word, “Ferrets!”
At the bottom, the shaft man flashed a torch up the tunnel and the diggers dropped what they were doing and trolleyed back hell for leather, Langford just had the trap in position again as the jackboots sounded in the corridor and the voice was bellowing, “Raus!MoreLess
The timing was uncanny. A score of guards marched in for a snap appell in the early afternoon a couple ...of days later. If the fools had done it properly they might have trapped the day shift underground, but with boneheaded Teutonic thoroughness they had to go through the usual bullshine routine of falling in by the gate, numbering off from left to right, and then dismissing to clear the prisoners out of the huts. Harsh saw them from 104, and Langford went through the new drill. He had the trap up in a moment and called down the shaft the one word, “Ferrets!”
At the bottom, the shaft man flashed a torch up the tunnel and the diggers dropped what they were doing and trolleyed back hell for leather, Langford just had the trap in position again as the jackboots sounded in the corridor and the voice was bellowing, “Raus!MoreLess
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