Marmur, Jacland "Sweet Tooth."

Marmur's "short, short" World War 2 story is set in the final days of the conflict and centers on a Gestapo officer (Eric von Maltke) attempting to flee the rapidly shrinking Nazi Reich via boat to neutral Portugal. As the story opens, von Maltke has just been captured off the coast of Belgium and is being interrogated by an American Army officer. Also present is a young Belgian woman, a Resistance member, who had been held as hostage at sea by the German. It develops that before fleeing von Maltke had stolen a famous cache of jewels (the "Flemberg diamonds") and the smug German refuses to reveal their whereabouts assuming that he can use them as a bargaining chip to help bribe his way to the freedom of Portugal. The American officer refuses to take this bait and the wind is further taken out of von Maltke's sails when his former hostage reveals that she had actually absconded with his booty while at sea (he thought they were safely hidden shipboard) and tossed the jewels overboard. The Gestapo officer crumbles when he realizes that he'll now have to face justice. To provide final irony to the story, the young Belgian reveals that she had tied a line attached to the diamonds to a harbor buoy before tossing them overboard and that the jewels can now be easily retrieved and returned to their rightful owners.