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Transcription: [00:33:43]
{SPEAKER name="WERNER KARL DAHM"}
-- did a little work for show. In fact, at that time, we studied a flying wire-guided anti-tank --

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Really?

{SPEAKER name="WERNER KARL DAHM"}
-- vehicle. A little.

[00:33:57]
{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
A small missile?

{SPEAKER name="WERNER KARL DAHM"}
A small missile, yes.

[00:34:00]
{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Maybe a meter long, is that how long you are indicating?

{SPEAKER name="WERNER KARL DAHM"}
Yes, something like it.

[00:34:05]
And, I was sent on to some company to get some information on the wire spools.

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Mmm, hmm.

[00:34:19]
{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Did you get the impression, that you were just going through the motions and were passing the time before the war was over, or --?

{SPEAKER name="WERNER KARL DAHM"}
We just worked what we were asked for. We just --

[00:34:35]
We were busy. We didn't know too much about what was going on anyway, except I was sent in-- back to Peenemünde.

[00:34:48]
It's a funny thing, one of our administrative guys found out - I had come, the previous fall I had come back late from leave, because air raids. I was going, ah, I was supposed to serve a jail term. [[laughter]] So I had to go back to Peenemünde to sit for a week in a guard house.

[00:35:19]
{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Really, was it was some, some trivial, military --

{SPEAKER name="WERNER KARL DAHM"}
Yes. And on the way back the front was close enough, to that, on the way between Stettin and Berlin, I could hear the guns.

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Yeah.

[00:35:37]
{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
You -- Did you feel that, were you at that time very pessimistic about the outcome of the war? Or had you long - [[cross]] - assumed that it was lost?