GABRIEL KRAFFT AUDIO MEMOIR #2

Transcript:
Krafft: Gabriel Krafft, audio memoir, part two. After shooting my assistant, Von List had me dragged me out of Leipzig University and thrown in an SS prison.
Krafft: There were a dozen other experts already there, “recruited” from museums and universities across the Reich to assist the SS unit, Die Wahrheit.
Krafft: They were explorers, historians, archaeologists, and so on. Many looked beaten. All looked frightened.
Krafft: Hung on the wall was a map of the world with notes and drawings next to different locations. Things like “the Grail” and “Thor’s hammer.” “Atlantis” and “Shangri-La.”
Krafft: We wondered if this was a joke. But when Von List arrived, he was dead serious.
Krafft: The Oberführer ordered us to help his troops find the places on that map and retrieve those relics. It made no difference that they did not exist. We would deliver them, or else.
Krafft: The others agreed and filed out to do his bidding. They were not stupid men. I alone defied Von List.
Krafft: I said, "I know what you Nazis are doing. I’ve seen friends and neighbors taken away. I’ve heard what happens at your camps. And I would rather die than help you.”
Krafft: Von List showed a flash of anger... and then he smiled. He was amused I actually thought I had a say in my own fate.