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Just beyond its reach was the wild vastness of the New Mexico desert if he shot, maybe even freedom. Railroad tracks were past the gates, an estimated four- or trek. He noticed them until recently, until after the newspapers started to write about the end in more imminent terms. The slender young soldier, described later in the wanted posters as almost 6 feet tall and 171 pounds blue; hair, brown; nationality, clawed himself under the fence, then the second. As the other prisoners reveled inside the camp mess hall, throwing spirited jeers at an Amer- ican Western movie, 24-year-old Georg Gaertner sprinted into the boundless desert that sur- rounded their small satellite prisoner-of-war camp.

Just as planned, a Southern freight train roared past within the hour, right as he reached the tracks. Running alongside it, he hurled himself inside an open car. The scene was eerily similar to an event a few years earlier, during Preparatory School for the Nazi Army. After being taught how to evade the Allies if caught behind enemy lines, hundreds of candidates were set loose on the edge of a German town called Heidelberg. Their mission was to make it to the other side of town without being noticed by the instructors.

Some of the soldiers tried jumping from rooftop to rooftop, others slogged underground in the sewers. A few disguised themselves as women. Gaertner was the only one who casually hopped onto a streetcar and rode it through town. It was as daring as it was simple blending into the monotonous humdrum of everyday life. It worked.

He won the challenge that day. And in a way he won it again that night years later, as the freight train delivered him across the moonlit expanses of the American Southwest in Septem- ber 1945. Daring simplicity would carry Gaertner through his next 40 years as a wanted fugitive from the migrant farm labor camps of Northern California and the forests of Southern Oregon to lush Hawaiian islands and burgeoning Colorado cities. It would lead him into jobs in sales and on ski resorts. And it would bring him to Jean, who still speaks fondly of him from her Northern Colorado home about the night a tall, handsome stranger tapped her shoulder at that YMCA singles dance in San Mateo, California.

LAST How a 40-year search for a fugitive Nazi ended in Northern Colorado Erin Udell Fort Collins Coloradoan USA TODAY NETWORK See SOLDIER, Page 4A Top: Georg Gaertner, or Dennis Whiles, and his wife, Jean, sit across from Bryant Gumbel on set of in 1985. JEAN WHILES Bottom left: Georg Gaertner is shown as a prisoner of war in 1943. He would be sent to Deming, New Mexico, where he would escape and live as a fugitive from 1945 to 1985. Bottom right: Georg FBI wanted poster was printed and distributed in 1947, two years after he slipped out of his New Mexico POW camp and into American life. FBI PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ABEL TODAY NETWORK, AND GETTY IMAGES IN COUPON SAVINGS SAVE UP TO $250 Discounts for Seniors, Veterans Disabled $79 Triple Play (970) 422-3111 lionhomeservice.com FC -F TC 00 11 02 8- 04 Coupon must be presented at time of service.

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