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CHAPTER 4
Spence meets Ted Draney on the bus to bootcamp and they became best friends. Ted wants to quit and so does Spence but
he doesn't because he bragged so much back home that he didn't want to. By the end of the third day at camp more than 1/2
the recruits had quit. The remaining recruits were moved to another camp across the Chattahoochee River, which was a lot worse
conditions than they had a the Frying Pan. Spence and Ted had made it through their first real jump out of a C-47, Ted said
he couldn't do it again.
CHAPTER 5
When Dieter's Hitler Youth section had arrived to Traben, on the Mosel River, his commander had immediately shut down
a local school and converted it to sleeping quarters for about half the boys. Dieter was given orders, about the school principal,
"Get some help if you need it. Then throw this man out of here. If he gives you trouble, or if he tries to return, shoot
him." The man swore at them when Dieter and another boy linked arms with him and brought him to the street. Dieter felt
amazing power when he pulled his Walther pistol from his holster and pointed it at him. Coldly yelling, "Don't think
I won't shoot. Get Going!" Dieter caught some boys playing around in the mud, tossing globs of mud at each other. He
had to make the decision of turning them in or not. Instead he said that he had to work two hours extra that night, miss their
dinner and thank him everyday as long as they stayed there that he didn't turn them in. Two weeks later, a British Spitfire
(type of plane) suddenly dove through the clouds and made a long run over the trench. A number of boys went down, and one
boy was killed, Ernst Gessell, the oldest boy who was playing in the mud. At Gessell's burial, the adult commander of the
entire operation, Oberleutnant Feiertag, gave a speech. Dieter didn't cry, he wouldn't allow himself.
CHAPTER 6
In this chapter, Dieter and his troops are finishing the trenches. No one has run off again for fear of being shot, like
Willi. Dieter receives a telephone call and is told to be in his best uniform, clean, and outside at five A.M. for a conference.
He meets a few other HJ [Hitler Jugend [Hitler's youth]] leaders at his conference and Adolf Hitler himself. Dieter is then
taken out of commans to join the other Nazi at the front. He meets Corporal named Schaefer and is told to take ordes and follow
Schaefer's lead.
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