So I said âThey would have a hell of a chance getting information off me because they could kill me before I would spill anything.â So Shorty says âYou might not spill nothing at first but you would be a game bird if you stuck through all the tortures because when they ask you something and you donât tell them they cut off a couple of toes and see if that wonât make you talk and so on till you donât hardly know if you are alive but if you are game enough to stand all they give you why finely they will see what a game bird you are and then they finish you off so you wonât suffer no more. But if you tell them all you know right at first they wonât do nothing to you only of course you will be a prisoner there in Germany till the war is over and they make you work your head off without no food and they donât even feed the guards because they want to keep them mad at the prisoners so as they will make them work harder and every time you act like you was loafing or something the guards scratchs their initials in you with their bayonet.â
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