The next morning, a 300-man strong Nazi counter-partisan named "Edelweiss", under Commander Ladislav Niznansky, stormed and surrounded the cabin. Morton, who was wearing an American uniform, and the others were captured in the act. Morton's translator Josef Piontek, wrote in his diary that he watched the Nazis burn down the cabin and the flames swallowing a thick stack of notes belonging to Morton who he noted "fed on the news more than on food."JOSEPH MORTON, ASSOCIATED PRESS, FOLLOWED THE DAWES MISSION TO MAUTHAUSEN
