Ninth Commandment - Invasion of Holland

Words at War presents a story by and with Hendrick Villam-Vonlom. Here is a preface to my story. The year is 1933. The speaker is Adolf Hitler. This is another of the Words at War programs presented each week by the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with the Council on Books in War Time.

time. The Preffitoris scene, you've just heard, is described in Herman Roshning's preface to the Ten Commandments, a volume of ten short novels of Hitler's war against the moral core. The novels themselves were written by ten distinguished writers, and the story we present tonight, the story that will be narrated by the author himself, is Hendrick Villam-Bunlons, the Ninth

Commandment. This is the ninth commandment. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Boy, it is coming, Samuel. It is coming the train. I hear it, wife. Oh, Samuel, I wonder what he will be like, our little German boy.

I'm your self-wife. It is unseemly for a God-fearing woman to show excitement in public places. Yes, sir. As for what our little German refugee will be like. Well, you may rest assured of one thing. He will be hungry.

You see, I've called him Samuel, but that was not his name. And I shall call the town where he lived by the name of Neustad, which is not his name either. But I can tell you this, it's a very ancient town, a town reaching its history back to the 12th century.

The typical Dutch town, where the typical Dutch people live, you know, live in either love or fear of God and of God's word. And in disrespect at least Samuel, the picture frame maker, was very typically Dutch.