Taken Hostage

They must have received funds from the underground for me to have such good food there because I, in all these places I ate so well that it was, it was almost disgusting, you see. Yeah, and so they uh, I stayed with them until, until I was taken and the last three days by the Germans which is my final escapade. So the last, last two days I heard, we heard a big kafuffle out on the street and it turned out that the Germans had, they were retiring from Liège. This is a big, the is a big city, Liège. It's as big as, it's about the second biggest town in Belgium. They decided, well I mean the war was going so well that they wanted to get out, you see but this one group for some well for reasons that I understand were that they, two of their men had been, had disappeared, two of their soldiers, so they decided that they would take some hostages to try and force the Belgian civilians to let them know where they'd be, you see. They went, what they did, house-to-house search. They just ran right, right into a house. If they saw anybody that they wanted to be as a hostage, they'd just pull them out, line them up out on the street and they did that about, for about 40 men, no women, just 40 men and they lined us all up on the street.