Mission Summary and Team 
12 May 1941
At the Town Hall
- The Oberleutnant and the Leutnant insisted on taking Antoinette to the cafe after her meeting with Kalb. They would not take no for an answer. The Leutnant noted that the Oberleutnant was on duty. The Oberleutnant conceded reluctantly.
On The Farm
- Shortly after Simon buried the soldier’s kit under the barn. Yves arrived alone with a big truck. Yves told him that the Gestapo were in Betton and interested in the events at the farm. Simon and the equipment had to be moved to a safe location away from Betton in Rennes.
- Yves had authorization from the Oberleutnant to go to Rennes and pick up a consignment of seed to deliver to Betton for distribution to the farmers as a good will gesture. There were bundles of tarps in the bed of the truck. He planned to wrap the equipment in tarps to make it look like the other bundles to disguise it against inspection.
- They would also need new identities. Yves would point them to a trusted forger once they were established in Rennes.
- Maelys told him Arnou was at the clinic and Antoinette was at the town hall. He saw Victor and Yann enter the cafe as he was leaving the village. He passed the word for Yann to have Victor to meet them at a rendezvous on the road to Rennes.
- They dug up the equipment. Simon attempted to contact N, but there was no response on the radio, so they departed for the rendezvous.
At the Cafe
- Victor went to the café to meet Yann for lunch. The conversation in the room stopped for a moment when they entered. There were furtive glances at them, but no one approached or spoke to them. A couple of people gave covert acknowledgements to Yann and then left.
- Yann spoke quietly about coexisting with the Nazis.
- He was a fierce Breton Nationalist, but unlike many other nationalists he saw the Germans, and specifically the Nazis, as a worse threat to Breton interests than the government in Paris ever had ever been.
- However, most other nationalists turned collaborator, but he kept in touch with his Breton Nationalist contacts, who provided him unknowingly with information about the Germans’ activities. He was trusted by his former comrades in the Breton cause not to pass on their secrets as he has kept his thoughts on the occupying forces to himself.
- Victor is the first person he has confided that to. He told him because he could see Victor’s suspicion in his face.
- When Antoinette and Leutnant Jaeger arrived at the café, the conversation stopped and everyone in the room looked at them briefly. The Leutnant led her to a private table. He seemed to be genuinely concerned about her well-being, but Antoinette could see that he had been shaken by the Gestapo meeting himself.
- He started talking about his life before the war. He had been the Personnel Manager for the family toy company. They specialized in model trains made from wood. He was drafted in 1938, after completing the compulsory military training all university students were required to take.
- He was sent in the occupation (second) wave of the Polish invasion to keep the peace. At first things went reasonably well. There was little resistance, and the Poles complied with the regulations and things were quiet. Much as things had been going in Betton.
- Then the SS moved in. They started rounding up Jews, Communists, anyone who was deemed to be disruptive. The Poles turned in their neighbors for rewards. It got very ugly very fast.
- A partisan unit completely destroyed a battalion of German infantry in a skirmish in a nearby the village. They were ordered to conduct harsh reprisals against the civilian population. The memories of those days still haunted him.
- Then his unit was ambushed near the village of Szałasy. They took heavy casualties. Three-quarters of the company and 17 of his own men were killed. The remaining 12 men under his command were sent to Betton as a recovery assignment.
- As they were talking, a young woman entered the café and walked up to the counter. After a moment, she rearranged the coasters into two smaller piles, and then went into the bathroom.
- Yann noticed the woman’s entrance and activity at the counter and told Victor that his team was being evacuated because the Germans were getting too close. They were to rendezvous on the road to Rennes in 1 hour.
- Antoinette followed the woman into the bathroom. She was just waiting there. The woman left when Antoinette arrived. Antoinette exited a moment later, and went to the counter to examine the coasters. There was nothing noteworthy there.
- Victor and Yann went back to the safe house to collect the gear.
On the Way to the Clinic
- Antoinette and Leutnant Jaeger were intercepted by Untersturmführer Todt and another plainclothes Gestapo man. Todt dismissed the officer. Antoinette looked to Jaeger to help her, but the Leutnant reluctantly walked away. Todt took her arm in his. The other man flanked her on the left and they walked up the street toward the clinic.
- He confided that he knew what she did in the cell, and that he was sure it would be of interest to the Hauptsturmfuhrer, but told her that he would keep the secret if she cooperated with him.
- Todt told Antoinette that the old woman had not exposed her, but that the suicide pill was discovered on her person. Todt questioned the old woman and learned that she got the pill from Dr. Berger.
- He asked her where she got it. Antoinette told her that she had made it herself from her medical supplies. He did not believe her. Instead, he told Antoinette that she would be transferred to the POW Hospital in Rennes, where he could keep an eye on her, and where he would be calling on her to perform tasks that he would assign her.
At the Clinic
- When they arrived at the clinic, Kalb’s car and an SS truck were parked outside, guarded by two SS soldiers. When the entered, they found the Hauptsturmführer’s arm around Marlon’s shoulders and holding the gold box in his other hand. Arnou was under guard.
- Six soldiers had searched the clinic and found Marlon’s sketches as well. They had Millard and Talon’s bodies on stretchers and were preparing to take them with them.
- Kalb informed Antoinette that the gold box, which was of Jewish origin, was found in a footlocker containing her belongings. Marlon had said that he had put it there and that it had belonged to the old doctor, Dr. Dreyfuss, who had been Jewish. Kalb asked if Antoinette knew it was there. She said she did. He asked why she had hidden the box but none of the other Jewish things scattered around the house. She did not have a chance to respond.
- Todt interceded and recommended to Kalb that he endorse Dr. Berger working for Stabsarzt Lumpf at the POW Hospital “to keep the care of their special patients under Gestapo control.” Kalb considered that for a moment and agreed. He ordered Antoinette to prepare her lone patient for transfer to the hospital in Rennes and to accompany him there.
- Kalb then ordered Todt to take Antoinette in his car, while the wounded soldier, the corpses, and all the confiscated materials were to be transported in the truck to Gestapo Headquarters in Rennes. Kalb took Marlon and the box with him in his car.
On the Road Out of Betton
- The golem attacked Kalb’s car and it swerved to a halt. Todt’s car ran into Kalb’s. The drivers were both thrown through the windshield, and the Gestapo plainclothes man was wounded, but Kalb, Marlon and Todt were not injured.
- The soldiers from the truck opened fire with the submachineguns and overcame the golem’s defenses with several effective sprays of automatic fire. It was quickly reduced to a cloud of clay dust.
- While the battle was raging, Yves, Simon and Victor arrived. Arnou, who had been left behind when the battle began, ran to join them. The brandished weapons and opened up on the Germans from behind.
- The team killed them all, but not before Kalb shot both Antoinette and Marlon each in the abdomen. Kalb was subsequently killed, and both received first aid to bind their wounds, but they both needed a doctor badly.
- The bodies were searched and they found Kalb’s notebook. It mentioned promises of power from “The Sleeper” and Kalb’s search for something to hold over von Laue to gain access to the museum. They also recovered the gold box and Marlon’s sketches.
- They recovered six MP-40, 24 clips of 9mm ammo, and 10 stick grenades.
- Yves gathered up the bodies and blew up the cars to cover their tracks. Victor cleaned up the non-German brass from the Sten guns.
- They piled into Yves truck. Victor dumped the German truck into the river, including the bodies of Talon and Millard, and then they made their way to Rennes…