It took longer to get the location of the female spy from the monks at the monastery than Lieutenant Herman Schmidt had expected. Perhaps some of that had been his fault. He would admit that. The Nazis were always coming up with new tortuous ways of getting people to talk. It took him a while to decide on which of these new methods to employ.

In the end, he decided to mix water with electricity. They fought it for a while, but eventually one of the monks talked. He learned that the ...