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Dirk Bogarde
Please take a look at an extract from the interview
with Dirk Bogarde, one of the most-renowned
actors in the film history :

"My views were formulated as a 24-year-old officer
in Normandy ... On one occasion the Jeep ahead hit
a mine ... Next thing I knew, there was this chap in
the long grass beside me. A bloody bundle,
shrapnel-ripped, legless, one arm only. The one
arm reached out to me, white eyeballs wide,
unseeing, in the bloody mask that had been a face.
A gurgling voice said, 'Help. Kill me.' With shaking
hands I reached for my small pouch to load my
revolver ... I had to look for my bullets -- by which
time somebody else had already taken care of him.
I heard the shot. I still remember that gurgling
sound. A voice pleading for death ...

"During the war I saw more wounded men being
' taken care of ' than I saw being rescued. Because
sometimes you were too far from a dressing station, sometimes you couldn't get them out. And they
were pumping blood or whatever; they were in such
a wreck, the only thing to do was to shoot them.
And they were, so don't think they weren't.
That hardens you: You get used to the fact that it
can happen. And that it is the only sensible thing to
do."
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Dirk Bogarde was there at the liberation of
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in April 1945.
He was haunted by what he saw and could not
speak about it for years and years.

Anne Frank was killed in Bergen-Belsen in March
1945, only a month before the Allied reached there.

Dirk Bogarde played a role of Gestapo in
" The Night Porter " in 1974.
by fighter_eiji | 2008-06-17 09:33 | English
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