Colditz 2x09, "Senior American Officer"
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kindkitI'm going to summarize this episode pretty briefly, since I don't think it deserves more.
Three high-ranking American officers (Colonel Dodd, Captain Nugent, and Phil Carrington, now a major in the US army) arrive in Colditz from Gestapo custody. The Gestapo having failed to get the information it wanted from them, Major Mohn puts in place an elaborate scheme with the cooperation of both the Kommandant and Ulmann. Mohn tries to foster distrust between the Americans and the British by giving the American prisoners noticeable privileges in "solitary," where all three are held together, before releasing them into the general Colditz population. Mohn also makes it appear that the Germans are seeking infiltrators to pose as Americans, adding to the suspicion of the three new arrivals.
When the three Americans are released from solitary, the suspicion has grown to such an extent that Colonel Preston and his officers demand as much information as possible about the Americans' mission, which involved secret peace negotiations with Hungary. Using a hidden microphone, Mohn listens in on this discussion. Eventually Carrington and Simon work out the German scheme and have Colonel Dodd, the senior American, pretend to write down the names of his Hungarian contacts for Colonel Preston. Mohn raids the barracks during this discussion and seizes the paper, only to find that all Dodd has written are the opening lines of the US Declaration of Independence. Preston complains to the Kommandant about Mohn's conduct and asks the Dodd be accepted as Senior American Officer.
Timeline: References to the German occupation of Hungary place this episode during October-November 1944.
Three high-ranking American officers (Colonel Dodd, Captain Nugent, and Phil Carrington, now a major in the US army) arrive in Colditz from Gestapo custody. The Gestapo having failed to get the information it wanted from them, Major Mohn puts in place an elaborate scheme with the cooperation of both the Kommandant and Ulmann. Mohn tries to foster distrust between the Americans and the British by giving the American prisoners noticeable privileges in "solitary," where all three are held together, before releasing them into the general Colditz population. Mohn also makes it appear that the Germans are seeking infiltrators to pose as Americans, adding to the suspicion of the three new arrivals.
When the three Americans are released from solitary, the suspicion has grown to such an extent that Colonel Preston and his officers demand as much information as possible about the Americans' mission, which involved secret peace negotiations with Hungary. Using a hidden microphone, Mohn listens in on this discussion. Eventually Carrington and Simon work out the German scheme and have Colonel Dodd, the senior American, pretend to write down the names of his Hungarian contacts for Colonel Preston. Mohn raids the barracks during this discussion and seizes the paper, only to find that all Dodd has written are the opening lines of the US Declaration of Independence. Preston complains to the Kommandant about Mohn's conduct and asks the Dodd be accepted as Senior American Officer.
Timeline: References to the German occupation of Hungary place this episode during October-November 1944.
