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    iin) ve Conversation with Peter Jorgensen Finding Humor in Hell By Gene Santoro COPENHAGEN, winter 1945: Peter Jorgensen, 18, Is ‘8 Danish boy scout and Resistance worker whom the Gestapo arrests along with other members of his cell After days of torture, their captors stuff the Danes into catte cars ‘and send them to an unknown destination—reveated, after two ‘weeks of meandering through devastated Germany in winter cold, as Dachau concentration camp. “You had to keep your sense of humor,” Jorgensen recalls. "It's all you had left” You faced multiple interrogations. ‘The first, they handcuffed mein a chair covered with blood and pounded my face. The second, they put me in a straitjacket and repeated the face-pound- ing until Iwas more dead than alive; then they took off the straitjacket, and an agent built like a bear beat me uncon- scious, The third, I had interrogators ‘who looked like Laurel and Hardy but ‘weren't nearly as funny. One said, “We ‘want a confession, so I'l spare you fur- ther beatings and read you your file.” It ‘was pretty complete from my birth on. I expressed my admiration and signed three copies. He told me I was up for the death penalty; I said I wasn’t eager to die at my tender age. He promised to reduce my sentence to a trip to Germany. On February 19, I celebrated my 19th birth-

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