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Show Rose (1/25/83) nage 10 ~r. K Mr. K Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K ~r. R Mr. K essentially old men or anything like that. My business was only to be, in a sense, introduced to what was going on, what was going on in an area that ... I'm trying to walk a thin line here. Well, let me ask you this. You can answer this or you don't have to. Eugene Hertz said that you came to him at one t1me,and you can just collaborate this or not, and asked him to translate. I have no reticences where Gene Hertz tells you and I tell you where I fit in with him. Ok. Eugene says he came into the country maybe 5 months before and he was working downstairs in a place doing some pressing. Pike Manufacturing is where he worked on 2nd south or west 1st south, I don't remember. He was pressing clothes. I don't know what the hell he was doing there, I know he worked there. What we were doing was we were looking for a German who would translate for us,i~t translate for~' or : translate for~ in the sense that it was for me because I .... but anyway, what we wanted was a German that we could depend on, that we could rely on From the Jewish community, some how in the Jewish commun1ty,I got ~ ~1 -r Gene Hertz's name. I never knew, I ~ knew he was. So, we got his and we got where he worked, and we went down there and talked to his boss, and his boss said ••• you know, when I think back on th it's funnier than hell. I never saw such a scared man in all my life! I tell you something, I don't know how the hell he walked! Oh, this guy was paralyzed with fear, he was literally ashen when we looked at him, this fellow by the name of Stan Butcher and I. This was Gene. |
