![]() ![]() Flags, paintings, and tapestries covered the walls of the mine, with the stain of Nazi symbols, ribbons, and Hitler's name splattered about. It looked like a bizarre, eclectic museum, though even that didn't do the site justice. Indy stopped in his tracks in an elaborately decorated central passageway. Which will make getting what's in here, out … complicated. "Oh, that's here too," Captain Hancock said, pushing open the door. "This isn't a typical munitions dump, though." He didn't spot anything that looked like it would kill them. Pulling out a flashlight, he shined it on the area around the door, at the base, above, and along the sides. He looked around carefully for something that shouldn't be on a door hastily erected by a couple of Nazi foot soldiers turned bricklayers and carpenters. Hancock was pulling the door open but Indy held a hand up. Or, maybe they hadn't needed anything because something very nasty was protecting whatever was inside. There was minimal security the arrangement relied more on concealment. The padlock the soldiers had broken to get into the Bernterode salt mine was lying on the ground. "This is recent, too," Indy said, looking over the lattice door. Someone had already put up some lights so they weren't trying to do this with torches or flashlights. Indy followed and stood, dusting off his hands and jacket. "They thought the masonry looked too fresh." Hancock cleared the tunnel and scrambled to his feet. "The boys found it yesterday," Hancock was saying. The salt and rock pricked his palms and poked through the knees of his trousers. Indy crammed his hat into his jacket, got down on his hands and knees, and started crawling. "Doctor Jones? Are you coming?" Though Captain Hancock's voice was muffled, there was an edge of wonder and excitement that made following the man down a tunnel into a concealed mine seem like a really good idea. 1st Army had just found in a salt mine in Bernterode in the Thüringer Forest, Indy suspected his part in the War was entering a whole new, even stranger stage. Maybe Hitler could just suicide and that would finally end it.īut given what the U.S. Rumors of suicides in Nazi command were everywhere and German troops were running west as fast as they could, preferring American cooking to Russian. Surely it was a matter of days before the Americans, Canadians and British advancing from the West met the Soviets from the East. The Germans had been pushed nearly completely out of France. Bremen had surrendered, Regensburg captured, and München would fall soon. It should all be over now, shouldn't it? The Allies had crossed the Rhine in March. Thanks to freudiancascade and syrena_of_the_lake for the support and to my spawn for the idea Use of period-appropriate word for African-Americans, e.g., "negro" Brief references to MCU-Indiana Jones levels of torture and violence. ![]()
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