The younger of the two female prisoners was a 29 year-old Pole, blond and blue-eyed with broad cheekbones. Her name was Erna and she was accused of luring British soldiers on, like Circe, then shooting them in cold blood. Her story was that she had lived in France for many years, then married a German soldier who had been killed in Russia. After this she had come to Normandy as a cook for a German garrison along the coast. The other woman was a Turkish Jew who talked excitedly in French, telling the story of her flight to France from the Nazis and how terrible France had been under Nazi occupation. She was middle-aged and frightened, and appeared sincere and innocent.