SECRET ARMIES
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"I
understand your only son, Helmuth,
Langin,
he
going to school in
him
there two years ago."
schools in the United States for a fifteen-year-old
"Yes,"
"No
is
Germany?" I asked.
said,
"I
sent
boy?"
wanted him to learn German."
"What do
you pay for his schooling over there?"
He hesitated. His wife, who was sitting with us and occasion
"I
ally advising
him
in
in
German, suddenly interrupted
German,
German business."
I assume they did not know that I understood, for Boldt
passed off her comment as if he had not heard it and said
"Don t
tell
"You
s
s
twenty-five dollars a month."
earn forty dollars a week at the Navy Yard,
casually,
son
him. That
"Oh,
schooling in
Germany,
month s
took more than a
pay for your
and you and your wife
Germany last year. How do
clothes, etc.,
trip to
you do it on forty a week?"
His wife giggled a little in the adjoining room. Boldt shrugged
his shoulder without answering.
"The
cheapest the two of you could do it, third class, would
be about seven hundred
dollars.
Where do you have your bank
account?"
No bank
"No.
"All
the
account,"
money
is
his wife interrupted sharply.
kept here, right here in this
house,"
he
laughed.
"You
saved
"Yes;
in cash, right
all
"No
like
money
in
cash?"
here."
banks?"
"We
that
it
better like that
in
cash."
had been a marine engineer on the
North German Lloyd. He went to work in the Brooklyn Navy
Yard in 1931. When the cruiser "Honolulu" made its trial run
in the spring of 1938, Boldt was on board.
Boldt, like Dieckhoff,