“The prospect, whatever that involved, seemed enticing and I gratefully accepted the opportunity,” he later recalled. “With the advance of the Russian armies in 1944, the traffic on the network began to increase rapidly,” Croft recalled. View image in fullscreen June 2002, oil on canvas, by John Croft. Photograph: Courtesy of David Simon Contemporary“Fetterlein kept copies of his translations in a locked wooden cupboard,” Croft recalled. Croft recalled that Blunt, who would later be exposed as the “fourth man”, was “remote and chilly” for the rest of the interview.