There is a theory it's because a white mouse is a sneaky little mousethat slips through and runs through fields. The Germans called me the White Mouse I don't know why. Therewere 3,000 of them when we came and they had a recruiting drive and grew to7,000 Maquis men.
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Wehad to train them and show them how to fight and they were magnificent. I was in charge of arming the Resistance. If a German came atme I'd kick him in the three piece service and chop him in the side of the neck.Most of the time I was decoding. Silent killing - two experts from Changai police taught us.
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In the TVseries, Noni's basket was full with fresh vegetables! When the Germans stopped me, I'd just have a carrot orturnip and I'd explain that I'd just come back from the markets. I got a stolen bicycle - I had nopermit for it, no identity card, and I had to travel 500 kilometres throughGerman-held territory with no papers, to get a link with England.
We had a big battle in France our wireless operator losthis life and we lost the link with England. It was the script thescript was all stupid. Not theactors Noni Hazelhurst and John Waters were wonderful. That mini-series on my life with Channel 7 was absolutely atrocious. They had Germans to the north, Mussolini to the east, the AtlanticOcean to the west, and in the south, the formidable Pyrenees separating Francefrom Spain. My feeling of despair was profound andmillions of French people felt even more deeply. It was a horrifyingsight, especially the bodies of the children. The impression I had formed of the Germans years before inVienna and Berlin did not improve as I watched their aircraft strafing civilians- old women, old men, children, or anything that moved. As wedrove to the north of France we met Belgian refugees streaming down the highwayson their way south. I joined asmall voluntary ambulance unit, driving an ambulance Henri had provided. Henri receivedhis call-up papers and left for an unknown destination in early 1940. The Australians from the First World Warleft a terrific reputation in France. It will always be indanger because, alas, victory is not permanent. It has to be defended at all cost, evenif by doing so part of our freedom has to be sacrificed. I knew too thatfreedom itself could not be permanent.
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I was young butI already knew the horrors a totalitarian state could bring, and long before theSecond World War was declared, I also understood that a free world can onlyremain free by defending itself against any form of aggression. They accepted me because I too believed in freedom. I was able to hear the views of somebrilliant men, experienced in the ways of life. I have always been a good listener and those years wereinteresting and informative ones for me. My admiration for these refugees from Germany and Austria grew and I would seekout their company. This interview is from Living Relics of Australia available by Mick Joffe Alas, very soon the world was forced to admit the existence of the newword - GESTAPO - but it was too late and by the time the people took their headsout of the sand, hundreds of thousands of innocent people had been slaughtered. The majority of politicians andtheir leaders all behaved like ostriches whenever the subject of Hitler wasbroached. More than hatred or anger, I felt a deeploathing for the Nazis.īy the Spring of 1934 over 60,000 Germans had left their country but no onewanted to hear their stories of the New Germany.
It was easy.It was in Vienna that I resolved that if I ever had the chance, I would doanything, however big or small, stupid or dangerous, to try and make things moredifficult for their rotten party. People have often asked me how I came to work against the Germans. I was a journalist and I got the cameramanto take photos but the Germans confiscated the camera. The Nazishad the Jews on a big wheel going around like a chocolate wheel, maybe a dozenof them, and they were whipping them. When I was in Vienna in 1937/'38 there was a beautiful town square. I've legally got 3passports, a British, a New Zealand and an Australian one. That was in the days when New Zealand andAustralia were all friends and they gave us all an Australian passport, and Iwent all over Europe with it till the Nazis took it. I came to Australia when I was 20 months old with my father, mother, 2 brothersand 3 sisters.
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