Rybin, Y. Luftwaffe ace Walter Schuck researched / Christer Bergstrom, Yuriy Rybin. - Sweden : [s. l.], 2019. - 190 p. : ill.

WALTER SCHUCK Schuck entered the room and heard the huge doors close behind him. He feared the worst. But the unex­ pected happened. Instead of giving him his verdict, Terboven rose and came around the table and shook Schuck’s hand, asked for his apology, and thanked him for bringing him the important information about the actual supply situation with the “Eismeerjager”\ Schuck was totally taken aback. Then Terboven said: “Please apologise me one more time, Herr Leutnant, but would you care to honour me as my guest at my table this evening?” “Of course, I have nothing else to do this evening,” the astonished Schuck replied, and then he added: “Jawohl, Herr Reichskommissar!” That evening, Schuck left for Skaugum with the Buick, and the Norwegian driver. The distance from Oslo to Skaugum was about twelve miles, and they drove through a thick and dark forest. Schuck had heard stories about Norwegian resistance fighters ambushing lonely German vehicles, and he was prepared for an ambush. Suddenly a loud bang was heard and the car skid off the road while the driver broke. Schuck immediately pulled his pistol and pointed it at the driver. The terrified driver started yelling in Norwegian: "Ikke skyt! Ikke skyt! Det er punktering! Det er punktering!” When this had no effect, the driver changed to French: “Crevasion! Crevasion!” The Norwegian driver was lucky that the suspicious German was from the part of Germany which had lived under French rule for so many years. Schuck under­ stood: A flat tire! He sighed with relief. The driver changed wheel and then they drove on. Schuck arrived slightly late to Terboven. It was only he and the Reichskommissar this time. After supper, Ter­ boven invited him to the basement - although this time only in order to play table tennis. This was something Schuck understood! He easily won the first set, by 21:9. From his host’s dark face, Schuck understood that the Reichskommissar could not stand losing, but he decided not to pay any attention to that. Next set ended 21:11 in Schuck’s favour, and the third set 21:9. At the end, Ter­ boven hurled his racket across the table and exclaimed: “I can see through you, Leutnant! You don’t care that I am unable to move as fast after my flight accident!” Then Terboven went into an adjacent room. Schuck, who needed to go to the bathroom, opened another door. He was in a hurry, so he just flung the door open - and hit something, an obstacle of some kind. In the next moment, Schuck saw the butler sitting on the floor, hold­ ing a hand at his forehead, and a secretary quietly rush­ ing towards Schuck, putting a finger across her lips to urge him to keep quiet. Later that evening, when Terboven was not around, the secretary told Schuck a crazy story: “The butler is a British spy! He reports everything to England. Anything new which happens here at Skau­ gum - even when a painting is hung somewhere else, he reports it to England, and two hours later, BBC London reports: ‘A painting was shifted by Terboven.’” Schuck could not believe that it was true. Afterward, he heard that the secretary had helped many Norwegian families with relatives in prison camps to smuggle par­ cels to their imprisoned relatives. Walter Schuck and Norwegian journalists in Oslo, 1 November 1944. Walter Schuck and Norwegian journalists in Oslo, I November 1944.