Under a War-Torn Sky

The Nazi officer shoves Henry back into the room, mocking him. He holds a gun to Henry’s head and Henry thinks he is about to die. However, the Nazi shoots the dog instead, hitting it in the shoulder so it will die a slow death. Henry comforts the dog until it falls silent, and then Henry sleeps. He awakes to more sneering from the officer, who shows him a scarf that Henry recognizes as belonging to Madame Gaulloise. It has been sent to him by the head of the Gestapo in Lyon, who says she has been smuggling Americans out of Switzerland but he needs to find one of them; then he can hang her.

Henry is shackled and put in a German staff car with the Gestapo officer and they set off for Lyon. When the driver swerves to avoid cows on the road, Henry and the officer are thrown together, and Henry manages to wrest the officer’s gun away from him and shoot him dead. He also shoots the driver. Henry gets out and runs for 20 minutes before throwing himself down a ravine.