A Spy Too Far Pt. 01

In fact he soon found that he received a very mixed reception, many of the officers just ignored him, or made very sarcastic remarks in his hearing about traitors. It all came to a head one day when one army officer actually stopped in front of him, barring his way out of the dining area, and called Tony a traitor to his face. He said "Herr Nash many brave men die on both sides in this war no-one likes war, but very few are gutless enough to change to the winning side halfway through. I am told you won the Victoria Cross. I have no doubt, that you have killed many of my countrymen, who were, or are German heroes in doing that. Mein Herr in my opinion you are utterly contemptible you should be shot.."

Before Tony could make any sort of reply, a soft female voice spoke from just behind him "No doubt Herr Nieumier, I am sure the Fuhrer will be glad to hear your opinions, especially speaking to a senior officer in that manner,. I will make sure your observations come to his personal attention. It takes a brave man to change sides in a conflict like this, and it seems to me, that you have a very loose mouth, and are totally unaware of the circumstances of this case. Perhaps you feel safe enough behind your desk in a Wehrmacht pay office, to voice such an opinion, but I am sure that a man with such outspoken views about heroics, will be a most welcome addition in a fighting unit.. So Mein Herr I will gladly pass your comments and your unbounded enthusiasm for active service on to the proper authorities."

The army officer concerned scampered away, looking very unsure of himself. Turning Tony saw the reason why. He found himself face to face with one of the most elegant, and gorgeous women he had seen for a very long time. She was quite tall, slim and a very beautiful specimen of German womanhood. She smiled at him showing perfect white teeth. "Guten Abend Herr Nash, ich bin Frau Elizabeth von Epp" She was dressed in a fawn raincoat, which was soaked by the almost constant rain. Her face was flushed, and her eyes sparkled in anger, obviously leading to her outburst at the unfortunate officer who had been on the receiving end of her displeasure. Taken by surprise, Tony bowed slightly, and taking her gloved hand he kissed it. She blushed slightly, and turning towards the silent group of officers who were close enough to be watching and listening to the conversation. "For your information gentlemen Herr Nash won the Victoria Cross, for his bravery in saving lives, by defusing a mine lodged on the casing of the submarine he was serving on at the time, not for taking lives, as our desk bound hero here has suggested. Herr Nash has also spent most of his childhood here in Germany, his mother was German, and he went to school in Berlin for many years. He has a Grand mother in Berlin, and many other relatives as well. Some of whom are serving in the Waffen SS. I note that you all seemed to agree with Herr Nieumier, so I will pass all your names along with his."

Turning to Tony she smiled, and said in quite a loud voice. "I apologize for my lateness Herr Nash, and for the ungentlemanly remarks of some of our desk bound heroes, but I was delayed because of the weather. I was sent by the Fuhrer, to take you to Berlin when you are fit, to see your grandparents, and then we will go on to Burchesgarten when you are fully fit. My uncle the Fuhrer, is looking forward to meeting you and talking to you in great depth, as is of course Grand Admiral Doenitz."

As her remarks were absorbed by the watching Frau Elizabeth were left all alone. Turning towards Tony again, she said. "Perhaps Herr Nash you will be kind enough to escort me to dinner, after I have had a chance to have a bath and change. I understand that I am in the adjoining room to yours" Tony was only too pleased to accept her invitation, and for her support, and together they walked back to their rooms on the second floor. Later they had a very pleasant dinner, and he found that Elizabeth was very pleasant and interesting company. She had a good command of English, although Tony insisted that they spoke German, as he needed to bring his German up to speed. She kept the conversation on a very light level, and during the following week they became almost inseparable. They had most of their meals together, and they walked and talked for hours in the adjoining forests and mountains. Very often ending up in a nearby Gasthaus by a mill pond for a meal.

The attitude of the other officers at the centre changed rapidly, especially when they understood how highly he was apparently being regarded by the Nazi regime and the Fuhrer personally. She told Tony that she had been sent especially to look after him, but as their friendship developed he got several significant hints, that she was looking for a much closer relationship, he decided however, to play dumb, and see what happened. They had the use of a military car and driver, and they enjoyed driving to the adjoining forests, and walking in the woods in the area of Ulm. A trip to nearby Austria was also very enjoyable However when he suggested a trip across the border to St Gallen, in Switzerland that request was politely refused with a smile.

She told him that she was a war widow, having had her husband killed in the Battle of Britain over England. He was surprised to find that she did not seem to show any bitterness towards the British, or him personally for it. Eventually he explained to her, that he had been married to Anne-Marie, for just short of three weeks and that she had been assassinated on the orders of the Gestapo. He explained that shortly after the marriage both he and Anne Marie found that they were in some ways rather incompatible, they had married in haste and they had both agreed privately, that perhaps they should not have married.. Of course Tony knew this was far from the truth, but he thought it was probably the right thing to tell Elizabeth at the time. "I admit I did have some feelings for her and she helped me defect, without her it would have been virtually impossible.."

Gradually, despite Tony's reservations, romance gradually entered into their relationship, although Tony held back from making any overt moves, and tried hard not to get involved. But Elizabeth was a master of seduction, and she made all the first moves, and after two or three nights of exchanging kisses in the hallway before retiring to bed, she eventually pulled him into her bedroom.

Although Tony made a faint but futile protest, as Elizabeth turning swiftly undid his jacket throwing it on to a chair and then she undid his belt and pushed his pants to the floor. "Herr Nash why have you been hiding this from me" She said as she reached down and started fondling his erection. He needed no more of an invitation, as he took her in his arms, kissing her passionately, feeling her breasts pressing into his chest. She pushed him away, as then they both swiftly undressed. He pushed her back gently on to the bed, wanting her so much, Elizabeth smiled invitingly up at him; her beautiful blonde hair splayed out across the pillow made her look so inviting...She opened her arms in invitation as she said "Come to me Anthony dear. Let's see just how good you really are." As Tony joined her on the bed, her hand unerringly pointed his cock as she guided him inside her, she moaned softly and invitingly as Tony gently pushed deep inside her. Then she whispered. "No Mein Liebchen, it's been such a long time for me, let me come on top."

She rolled him on to his back, without losing him. She sat up straight letting her weight drop back down on to his cock, very slowly bringing a myriad of mind blowing sensations. Then she leaned over to kiss him, behind the curtain of her blonde hair that hung down around their faces, her body swaying slowly and rhythmically as she moved. Her kisses were wet and extremely passionate and Tony quickly realised that this lady was no novice.

She rode up and down his cock, pushing them both closer and closer to the brink of orgasm with each careful stroke. Then she leaned right back, her hands resting on the bed behind her, and he could feel his cock pushing right into her, at a slightly different angle, bringing a whole new range of sensations and responses that raced through their bodies, quickly initiating the climax that came simultaneously.

For a few moments they clung on to one another, enjoying the sensations that washed over their bodies. Eventually she slumped forward onto him, smiling and passionately kissing his face, as she tried desperately to get her breath back, while Elizabeth desperately gripped tightly on to the last inch of his straining cock.

The rest of the evening and the following night was a time Tony would remember for years to come, as time after time they brought each other to new peaks of passion, and to new heights of ecstasy. Time after time he tried and managed to slow her down, carefully prolonging their heavenly agony. That first night it was very late when sleep eventually took hold of them, and the morning was well advanced when they woke. Once again Elizabeth took the initiative. She straddled him, her body covered in perspiration as she sat her weight down on him, forcing his cock right up inside her as far as he could go, she told Tony she could feel his cock touch her deep inside. She stopped moving, trying vainly herself to prolong their act, but it was rolling on to the inevitable, and another fantastic climax, even as she sat still feeling his cock getting even harder and even bigger inside her. It felt too good to stop, and he didn't really want it to. He looked up at her flushed face and he realised that he was in danger of developing strong feelings for this beautiful lady. When she felt Tony begin to gush inside her, she had no option but to follow him into the waves of pleasure, as her muscles gripped his pumping cock desperately trying to prolong the ecstatic agony.

When it was done, he felt even bigger inside her than when they had started, and Elizabeth was a little sore as she eased up off of him. She contentedly laid her head on his shoulder. "Mein Liebchen we must go down for breakfast, and we also need to bathe. I am starving" She said. They hardy talked at breakfast in the deserted dining room, and when he did look as though he was about to say something. She hushed me up saying quietly.' "Not here darling walls and waiters have ears."

After breakfast they returned upstairs to get ready for their morning walk. Once they got outside and started walking; Elizabeth hooked her arm in his until they came to a resting place where they sat and then abruptly turning towards him Elizabeth asked quietly. "Tony will you marry me" She sensed his hesitation. "Tony I have waited for you to ask me, but it appears that it is now up to me." Taking her hand he said, "Elizabeth I would marry you today, but I do not want to make you a widow again." She wrapped her arms round him "You silly man, if we only had a week of our lives together it would still be worth it."

As soon as they got back to the home, Elizabeth phoned the Fuhrer her uncle to give him the news of their engagement, and of course Herr Goebbels quickly used the news as a good propaganda item. The news that a British Submarine ace who had defected to Nazi Germany was to marry a relations of the Fuhrer, hit the world press the next day. From that time on, he was referred to by Lord Haw Haw frequently in his daily broadcasts to Britain, and it did a lot to help sagging morale in Germany. Tony only learned about the vilification, he received in the British and American press much later.

Tony's sense of frustration at the wasted operation, hit him as his name became prominent in the German Press. He knew full well that he would be receiving a bad press in the UK, and it was frustrating that it was all for nothing. Now he was trapped here in the middle of Germany, and not back in the UK fighting the war where he felt he should be.. It was only very much later, after his return to the UK that he found that the capture by HMS Bulldog of U110 had given the Allies all the German codes they needed.

The tragic thing was when he compared dates; the codes were actually in British hands several days before he had left for the continent, with Anne Marie. Elizabeth and Tony were allowed to stop together for another ten days at the rehabilitation centre, then they were flown to Berlin to meet his grandparents and cousins. Tony was amazed at Berlin. The city was buzzing there was no real shortage of food, and the lights were switched on at night, without any form of blackout. When there was an occasional raid the whole lighting system was switched off at the source. But Berlin was not too worried at being bombarded with leaflets sent by the British Government. It was a city largely free from the worries and tribulations of the war, although now the Royal Air Force was just beginning to become a nuisance. Everywhere he went with Elizabeth, he was followed by the press and he was feted as a hero..

On his second day there the news came through that Germany had invaded Russia. Most people were very excited and full of national pride. His grandfather was quite scathing and said. "The man is a fool - he has just lost the war. Britain is growing stronger with the help of her Commonwealth countries and Russia will suck the blood out of our army. You can not fight a successful war on two fronts."

His grandmother was his most scathing critic when they were on their own. She said. "It's lovely to meet you again Tony Liebchen, but why join this nest of vipers, and why risk your life. Why did you not stay in England where you are more safe?" His cousins were formally very welcoming. but did not express the same views. His cousin Ernst was a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht and was taking part in the invasion of Russia, Cousin Franz was in the Luftwaffe and even his cousin Greta's greeting was much warmer. She had developed into quite a stunner, with typical Aryan blonde hair and blue eyes and looked every bit an athlete. She was, he was quietly informed attached to the Gestapo. The whole family made a great fuss of Elizabeth on the face of it; Grandma Ursula however, was most scathing quietly. She hated the fact that the rest of her family on the face of it appeared to be supporting the regime, and she did not trust Elizabeth..

"Don't trust any of them and don't marry that vixen if you can avoid it." She whispered. "She is a hidebound Nazi through and through." Gradually, he did begin to wonder about Elizabeth, she seemed very formal at times, and now they had agreed to marry, it seemed that she had achieved her goal, and became a little more formal towards him. It was about the third morning in Berlin that she announced her pregnancy, and that was the morning when the whole family gathered for a press photographic session with Herr Goebbels, and his propaganda crew. Whether she was actually pregnant, or whether it was for propaganda purposes he never knew.

His time in Berlin was largely taken up by visits to war factories to help encourage the workers or speaking to groups of Army or Luftwaffe officers, or groups of the Hitler Youth. He was very disappointed at some of the comments he heard and the anti Jewish sentiments expressed by young people.

It was after the official photograph had been taken and they had moved back in to the house that Tony heard Elizabeth talking privately to Herr Goebbels. "I have carried out my instructions Mein Herr. The man is a tolerable lover, but I can not say as yet I have the same deep affection for him as I had with my husband." "Fraulein your Uncle is well pleased with you, you are doing well. Please remember any marriage can be annulled quickly with a bullet." The conversation made Tony think a lot more seriously about his position. Whether Elizabeth was just following orders, as the conversation seemed to indicate, or whether there was something more, he could not be sure. He was however, determined to watch his step very closely, and he reflected that it seemed that he was safe until at least until after the marriage. The following day Fraulein Elizabeth left, ostensibly to arrange the wedding, and to resign from her post as a Public Relations officer in Herr Goebbels department. She told Tony that she would be back to take him to meet her Uncle in about fourteen days time.

Tony was left to get reacquainted with his family, and to continue his recovery, without too much outside interference. His second cousin Greta and he, had spent a lot of time together as children, and now she was acting very much as his escort. Greta herself did not seem to have changed too much, despite her supposed link to the Gestapo. She refused to get involved in politics, and warned Tony to keep any political views to himself, she was very good company. They went to a lot of nightclubs together, and film shows, it was inevitable they became quite close, and thoroughly enjoyed each others company. But never once did they discuss politics or his apparent defection.

Next Chapter 9

Chapter 9 Burchesgarten

Elizabeth returned to Berlin as promised, to pick him up for the long trip to the infamous Eagles Nest Hitler's favourite residence. The trip was both long, and nerve wracking, as Tony was not looking forward to meeting Adolf Hitler, he dare not reflect on his fate, should his true mission be found out now, especially after meeting Hitler, and yet in many ways the journey had its compensations. It was quite wonderful, both from the delightful scenery at the latter end of the trip, and the fact that both Elizabeth and Tony were together for many hours, in a convoy of cars, except for the times they stopped at a pre-arranged Gasthaus's or Hotels for meals, or for the nightly stops.

Elizabeth seemed to be back to the warm loving girl he had first met at the convalescence centre. Wartime restrictions made the going slower than normal, the roads and the few Autobahns were busy with military traffic, and the periodic changing of their escort seemed to take an enormous time. All the time, about twenty SS Troopers with their notorious death head badges surrounded them, and stood guard over them day and night.

Tony never really found out whether the escort was to protect him or Hitler's favourite niece. The whole trip, and stops were planned with Prussian precision, making due allowance for his convalescence. This had the benefit of allowing Elizabeth, and Tony to have a significant number of "love stops" as they liked to call them. Tony could not forget the conversation he had overheard, but he determined he had to play along with what was happening to him at least for the time being, he just wondered whether Elizabeth herself was also playing a double game.

The problem for Tony now, was that he felt some strong feelings for Elizabeth, and yet his instincts told him he could not really trust her. He knew that he would have to leave her behind, if and when he could get back to England. If of course he could find a way to escape. Tony was in no doubt that to stay here in occupied Europe would go badly for him when the allies eventually invaded, especially, if he was captured by the invading forces. The fact that he had as far as most people knew defected would not go well for him. Tony had no doubt that he would also be treated badly by the public in England when, and if, he could return, but at least his name would eventually be cleared.

They arrived at Burchesgarten in the late afternoon of the fourth day , and were taken to separate rooms in order that they could freshen up. Elizabeth told Tony, that her Uncle Adolf was quite strict when it came to morality, although this did not apply to all the staff, who had their own means of having liaisons, and they would have to be very careful if they were able to make love again during the visit. Tony met the Fuhrer with Elizabeth at dinner that evening. Hitler greeted Tony formally, and Elizabeth effusively. His propaganda chief, Herr Goebbels and photographers were present, also Hitler's partner Fraulein Eva Braun, who was very nice and obviously fond of Elizabeth, and the cameras were flashing furiously.