From one of the camp personnel I had elucidated the fact that the Hamburg train went at 6.40 in the morning. From another source we heard there was also a train at 6.43 in the evening.
Gilbert meanwhile had been busy with the typewriter which he had secured with great forethought from its owner in the Aachen party. The “Ausweis” forms were completed, each according to our own particular specifications.
Mine ran as follows:
| Personal-Ausweis | ⎫ | |
| für | ⎪ | |
| Karl Stein | ⎬ | on the outside, |
| aus | ⎪ | |
| Stralsund | ⎭ |
and on the inside: on the left-hand side, my photograph—(I had been photographed in this very camp by the Germans and I had been wearing at the time an old Indian volunteer tunic which in the photograph looked much like a German tunic. This was pure chance and very lucky).
On the right side, my particulars:
| Karl Stein. | |||
| Date of Birth: | 4/6/1880. | ||
| Place of birth: | Stralsund. | ||
| State belonging to: | Prussian. | Height: | 1.60 metres. |
| Chin: | Ordinary. | Eyes: | Brown. |
| Mouth: | Ordinary. | Hair: | Brown. |
| Nose: | Large. | Beard: | Moustache. |
| Particular marks: | None. | ||
| Authentic Signature: Karl Stein. | |||
| (A very lame and halting hand this!) | |||
| “Herewith certified that the owner of the pass has subscribed | |||
| his name with his own hand.” | |||
| (Signed) Lieutenant of Police, Stralsund. | |||
The stamps affixed to the passport—two on the photograph, one on the right-hand side—were an amazingly clever imitation by Lockhead (the friend who had already helped us with the forging of the permit-cards). He did these stamps by hand through some purple carbon paper that I still had with me from an old army message-form book, and to be believed they should be seen in the original.
