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I am a former inspector
Walter Henry Thompson.

I am almost 18 years old
Winston Churchill's bodyguard.

In almost every movie clip
from the great British war leader ...

is this man in the background.
Anonymous and secret.

Its crucial role in foiling
of attacks on Churchill's life ...

until recently was not
known to the general public.

He did not want to live
to be taken prisoner ...

and ordered me to .45 Colt
always keep fully charged ...

with all but one bullets for the enemy,
and the last one for himself.

After the war Thompsons told
censored book not everything.

A complete report was
by Churchill himself stopped.

Only now can we count the number of attacks
to reconstruct Churchill's life.

Many of them failed thanks to Walter.

In this series we have access
to these incredible memoirs ...

and we show the story for the first time
Walters live with Winston.

Together they made
long dangerous trips ...

to Stalin, Roosevelt
and meet other world leaders.

Together they visited Lawrence of Arabia,
they escaped German killers ...

they almost fell victim
of enemy aircraft, attacks ...

submarines and assassins
from the IRA.

This series is about the
political revolutions in the 20th century ...

the times that Churchill
escaped death ...

and Thompson's role in prevention
from an early end of life.

In his hands, this weapon was deadly.

Someone who is within the reach of
this weapon came, it did not survive.

The killers of the IRA and
the Bolsheviks of the Soviet regime ...

Churchills were not the only enemies
when Walter became his bodyguard in 1921.

Together they traveled through one
of the most dangerous regions on earth.

A hotbed of ethnic
and religious conflicts ...

where Winston as the British minister
target was of many fanatics.

Walters became nerves and expertise
put to the test ...

but he also found unexpectedly
an ally: Lawrence of Arabia.

2: Saved by Lawrence of Arabia

Then Prime Minister David Lloyd George
the 46-year-old Winston told ...

that he is Minister of Colonies
would become...

his bodyguard realized that this was the chance
to be murdered would increase.

Because now he got to deal with
a whole new world of extremists.

He had to determine how the colonies
and protectorates were controlled ...

that Great Britain at the end of
had obtained the First World War.

For the former German colonies
Africa was no problem ...

but in the highly flammable
The business was very different in the Middle East.

The Ottoman Empire, which ruled the
Turkish border up to the Suez Canal ...

was dismantled.

Britain got by name
of the League of Nations ...

the responsibility
about Palestine, Transjordan ...

the Arabian peninsula
and Mesopotamia, the current Iraq.

There were rival groups everywhere.

They all wanted to seize power
now they were no longer dominated.

80 years later that is still true.

Lloyd George and his minister were investing
a conference in Cairo ...

for which all parties
were invited.

There it was determined how the new one
areas would be controlled.

The conference would take place
from 12 to 20 March.

Within a few weeks after his appointment ...

Walter Winston had to protect in one
of the most dangerous regions in the world.

Here was a British minister for everyone
that grudge had a target ...

but also for all kinds of species
terrorists.

An incident before their departure already indicated
how complex the problems were.

Walter walked away with Winston
from the ministry ...

when Lord Rothchild awaited them.
He was a member of the banking dynasty ...

and an avid champion of
a permanent homeland for the Jews.

Walter noted what happened next.

"He started against Winston
about the trip to Palestine.

Winston did not like his tone.
When Rothchild raised his voice ...

and demanded that the Arabs Palestine
were thrown out, Winston said:

"I do not take orders from you
regarding this trip.

I will try to make a reasonable arrangement
to come, do not interfere with it. "

Then he walked away. "

Jews wanted to return for centuries
to the land of their ancestors.

That since the year 636
was dominated by Arabs ...

apart from the time of
the crusaders ...

did not mean the Zionist
movement had become weaker.

Arthur Balfour, Minister of Foreign Affairs
during WWI ...

wrote a letter to Lionel Rothchild,
chairman of the Zionist movement.

In it he supported the idea
of a Jewish state in Palestine.

It became known
as the Balfour statement ...

and was the reason that Jimmy Rothchild
Churchill had addressed.

It was a signal that the Zionists were the
new minister under pressure.

The Palestinian Arabs, however, found
that they were more entitled to the area ...

because they lived there for centuries.

They were focused on that
the Jews would not benefit.

Walter needed as much information as possible
about possible threats.

But nothing could prepare him
on what awaited him in Egypt.

Winston told him he was
had another priority ...

one that would make it even more difficult
to protect him.

"Winston called me.

"Thompson, I will have a lot of you
during this trip.

You take care of my painting stuff, because
when I paint, you are the only one with me. "

I saw no harm in it and said:
I'll do my best. "

Winston was going to paint after he
resigned in 1915 as Minister of Marine ...

after the drama at Gallipoli.

Soon he became a meritorious
painter, especially landscapes.

Like his girlfriend
Violet Bonham Carter said ...

what it is the only activity
which he operated in total silence.

Winston liked his life, and thought
not that something would ever happen to him.

That's why he sometimes saw Walter as
a servant, and not as his bodyguard.

Wearing the donkey
and the paint box ...

was one of the chores that Walter
would always dislike it.

'I soon noticed that painting
no whim, but an addiction.

I was immediately tired of the idea
to carry those boxes all the time. "

Winston also still had
a responsibility ...

because he was also again
Minister of Aviation.

'Winston had two roles during
the journey to Egypt and Palestine.

That is why Lord Trenchard assisted him
as far as air force matters are concerned ...

and Lawrence of Arabia with regard
to the Arab issue. '

Winston always had the military and civilian
potential of aviation.

Before WWI he had learned to fly, and
when he became Minister of Aviation ...

he picked it up again, even though it was his
enthusiasm greater than his expertise.

In 1919 he collapsed twice
during training flights.

Yet Clementine had everything out of the closet
to get him to stop.

He had to decide whether Trenchard's idea ...

to the new areas from the air
to control with bombers ...

a number of armored cars and
a local police force was feasible.

It would be entire garrisons troops
care ...

something that is tight with cash
government had ears to.

This aspect of his ministerial
responsibilities ...

would Winston with a political and
a bureaucratic nightmare.

He therefore had a chance in Whitehall
politically to be massacred.

But the other aspect of his journey ...

find solutions for the centuries
long conflicts ...

carried a real risk
that really blood would flow.

And as Walter would experience, thought
many that it would be Churchill's blood.

When Walter was preparing for Churchill
to secure in the Middle East ...

he must take care of that
have made.

He had traveled very little.

No more than a few trips left
the Canal with Prime Minister Lloyd George.

Now he came in one of the most dangerous
areas in the world.

A region full of religious
and ethnic quarrels ...

where a British politician for every fanatic
would be a great target.

The board of T.E. Lawrence will give him
even more nervous.

He acted as Winstons personal
adviser in Arabic affairs.

"He said Churchills lives from
the first moment would be at risk.

The Egyptian police would
being helpful...

but the Arab crowds could
suddenly become dangerous. '

Walter knew that the man was him
this advice did not get frightened quickly.

But in the modest man
that he got to know ...

He did not immediately recognize the
legendary Lawrence of Arabia ...

one of the most elusive figures
from the beginning of the 20th century.

"He was a simple, untidy one
and strange man.

I could hardly believe that he was really the
'uncrowned king' of Arabia.

I was deeply impressed how sincere
he spoke about the Arabs.

His respect for them was the same
as the extent to which they worshiped him. "

But soon Walter was grateful ...

for the special relationship between
Lawrence and the Arabs.

He would take him and Winston several times
to save from very dangerous situations.

Lawrence knew the Arabs
since 1911.

Then he worked in Mesopotamia
as an archaeologist.

He admired them and learned
Speak Arabic.

In 1915 they thought he was the Arabs
against the Turks.

He first visited the two most important ones
tribal chiefs of the peninsula.

He chose Sheikh Feisal as the one
the Arabs could unite.

With him he put the uprising in 1916
against Turkish domination.

Led by Lawrence
the railways sabotaged ...

so Turkish reinforcements
were cut off.

Then he led the Arabs
at the conquest of all major cities.

He was first in the Arab
attack on the Turks in Palestine ...

who, together with British troops, are under
General Allenby was executed.

The highlight was the intake
of Jerusalem on December 9, 1917.

Lawrence took over in the fall of 1918
with Arab troops Damascus in.

He thought all the time the Arabs
fought for their independence ...

and that they passed them tacitly
the British government was promised.

When the Arabs in Paris with
vague promises were fobbed off ...

Lawrence was deeply disappointed.

Yet he saw the conference in Cairo
where he advised Churchill ...

as a new opportunity
to do the right thing.

For the emergence of
the passenger plane ...

went traveling considerably slower.

Even as a minister
fast to a conference.

It was not comfortable.
They traveled to Paris by train.

Hence it was about Walter
a terrible experience ...

the train from Paris to Marseille
about Lyon.

'You could not possibly talk, eat, sleep,
you shave or even think.

You could have the complete lack of comfort
just trying to survive ...

and then as soon as possible
forget.'

Churchill's wife Clementine
fourth holiday in Cannes.

She joined Marseille
with Walter and Winston.

There they took a liner
to Alexandria.

Walter only knew Northern France.

It was a difficult and possible one
disastrous baptism of fire as a bodyguard.

Lawrence provided better and better
how it would go.

But now he could at least guess Walter
indicate if it became penile.

"Only in a real emergency
may I use my revolver.

A fistfight
would be respected.

I would make friends
if I were to attack attackers ...

but enemies like me would shoot. "

Lawrence did not know the British at all
loved in Egypt.

It was part of the Ottoman Empire,
but was under British rule ...

since the construction of the Suez Canal
in 1869.

After WWI, the wish was to be independent
to become increasingly stronger.

Despite that, Winston is not direct
responsible for the government ...

everyone suspected the British their
wanted to strengthen the country's grip.

Winston would therefore with many
demonstrations.

When the ship moored ...

Walter must have thought that
his greatest fear came true.

"The heat and the flies were terrible.

There was a crowd on the quay
Egyptians and Arabs.

When Winston disembarked,
they began to scream furiously.

The cheering seemed to do little. But
the facial expression of those people ...

when we quickly got to the cars
was threatening. "

When Walter took place next to the
driver, he heard someone say:

"Never lose sight of Mr. Churchill."

It was Walters first acquaintance
with Thomas Russell Pasha ...

the head of the police ...

that name had made as, like Walter
it called, "scourge of drug fanatics."

Walter was not comfortable with it when she
by the hostile crowd.

It could become dangerous at any moment.
A killer could pop up like that.

But they came to the hotel, and worked
by another screaming crowd.

Winston was immediately after lunch
brought to a RAF camp.

Walter went along, and afterwards
they were sitting in the dining room.

"Mrs. Churchill was tired
and went to her room.

Suddenly she was troubled in the door.

She said: Come quickly, there is someone
in the room next to mine.

I rushed there. The door was
closed, but I heard someone.

I could not open the door, so I kicked
him. After two times he gave away.

I looked into the room ...

and saw an Arab climbing out of the window,
he was immediately out of sight.

The official suitcases were undamaged
but there was nothing of value.

Someone guarded the room while I was
went to Winston in the dining room.

He already arrived and seemed disappointed
that he had missed everything.

He said: You are sleeping in that room
as long as we are here.

That's where my wonderful bed went.

I had to sleep on a cot
with my revolver under my pillow. "

The next day was there again
a hostile crowd in front of the hotel.

Walter had counted on it,
and they left by a side door ...

and would go through small streets
drive to the station.

The royal train was ready. When they
boarded, a crowd gathered.

It was thrown with stones.
The situation seemed to get out of hand.

The train left, but he was driving
Walters is far too slow.

"I went to stand in the doorway,
and stayed there ...

until the train went so fast that you did not
to climb up or shoot more. "

That was good too.

The train slowed down
when he came to a transition.

A large crowd waited there
who had counted on this.

They swarmed around the train
and threw stones.

The boldest among them
tried to open the doors.

Walter knew it quickly
life threatening.

The crowd became increasingly boisterous,
the flame could hit the pan.

"Suddenly we heard glass break.

A window behind Churchills compartment
ment was thrown in, and one before.

Lawrence gestured me quietly
stay in my place.

He went to the end of the carriage. "

When the train stopped ...

Churchills seemed to live and that of
his escorts are in danger.

The Egyptians became mad about it
go. If they came in the train ...

Walters would probably be the first mission
run into a disaster.

"A huge crowd of angry people
Egyptians ...

some of which go to the windows
handles, kept the transition occupied.

Stones hailed down on the carriages.

Window after window was bounced.
Glass was everywhere on the carpet. "

For the first time he saw how calm Winston
stayed if his life was in danger.

'Winston was sitting quietly in the whole time
royal salon, and smoked a cigar.

I held his briefcase down a stone
flew through the window and fell between us.

Winston said:

Give it to Archie, you must
maybe your hands free.

We grinned and Sir Archibald asked:

If Thompson needs both hands
has, what do we need? "

Despite Walters somewhat boyish
The story was an anxious moment.

Almost all windows were thrown in,
there was glass everywhere.

The crowd wanted to climb in ...

and it seemed that they were every moment
had to fight.

Finally the train went faster.
The Egyptians ran after it ...

and tried to get in anyway,
but the danger seemed over.

"Lawrence came back, he never said much.

"We'll save it,
there is nothing more to throw in. "

Eight kilometers before Cairo
the train stopped unexpectedly.

Everyone reacted tense,
Walter will have feared the worst.

Two high British officers stepped in.

They warned them in Cairo
also awaited a hostile crowd.

That's why they switched to cars, while
the train drove further to the station.

The trick succeeded, without problems
they arrived at their hotel.

General Allenby, the high commissioner
from Egypt, Churchill welcomed.

As he did, took
Russell Pasha Walter again separately.

"He said to me:
"Churchill is in great danger.

Keep him in this part of
the world always in the eye.

Do not trust anyone, black or white. Watch
about him as about your own life.

Even in his bedroom. "
I said:

That is what I am here for, I will do everything
to protect him. "

Walter told the doorman ...

that he should report it immediately
Churchill went outside without him.

When he heard that Churchill was on foot
left, he was scared to death.

Walter went into the hostile streets
from Cairo looking for the minister ...

fearing what he would find.

Horrified that his boss only by the
town ran, Walter hurried down.

But Churchill was gone
in the hot and dusty streets ...

where it was swarming with beggars,
street vendors and passers-by.

It was terrible for Walter ...

to realize that the man he had to
secure now was extremely vulnerable.

The doorman thought he was at Allenby
gone. Walter went straight there.

He was greatly relieved then
Churchill came out of the house ...

but did not show anything when Churchill
greeted him with a smile.

"I said, I thought you would not go out.

If I have to guard you in a way
that you and me seem pretty ...

you must let it know when you go out.

My responsibility is big and it
would make my work much easier.

I said it on a real one
Scotland Yard tone.

How he reacted then,
gave me insight into his character.

It was the first time he did
showed something of itself.

"I will do everything to help you.
We begin to understand each other. "

The latter he said so nice
that I almost apologized ...

that I had spoken to him
in a very official tone. '

Walter had to be permanent
be wary.

If Churchill was at the conference,
he could fall back on the police.

But outside the hotel
the danger was everywhere.

That turned out a few days later ...

when Allenby visited Churchill
went to King Abdul in the Abdin Palace.

They were surrounded by the palace
by students and troublemakers ...

those slogans screamed
and scold them.

Their car just knew
to slip through the gate.

"Suddenly the crowd started to move.

A multitude of maniacs with brown
faces stormed on the fence.

Stones were flying around,
it had to go wrong.

The guards went there
the smeared lightning off.

The students were floating around our car.
Some climbed on the footboard.

The sergeant of the RAF said:
No weapon, just use your fists.

The sergeant and I went out,
each on the own side of the car.

The situation was dire ...

but we apparently struck so hard
that the majority was drying.

Officials came out of the palace
and spoke the rest.

Then we heard that they were going to our hotel
went to catch us later.

Winston came out and we took
'A route behind the protesters.'

Churchill then chaired the conference
which the British administration had to determine.

Walter could relax, knowing that
Churchill was now in a safe environment.

But now and then Churchill made trips
to the pyramids to paint them.

These were trips for Walter
nervous.

Winston's life was directly in danger
if he was in public.

Winston was almost injured in a trip
to the city of Saqqara ...

at 27 km southwest of Cairo.
But he did it himself.

Walter heard when they left ...

that the honored guests on dromedaries
would drive ...

accompanied by sheiks and others
dignitaries on horses.

Winston and Walter were sitting for the first time
on 'the ship of the desert'.

Both did not turn out to be born drivers.

'Winston seemed to be enjoying himself,
but suddenly fell sideways to the ground.

The Arabs were directly involved,
turned around ...

and rushed at him.

They went up and screamed
I thought in a threatening tone.

Later I discovered that they were begging him
to take a seat on their steed ...

and not defying the danger again
on a ship from the desert.

But they did not know him yet
as I knew him.

It just seems to be undermining him
to even greater efforts.

He wanted to finish the journey like
he started it, and said:

"I started on a dromedary,
I end up on a dromedary. "

When he mounted the dromedary again,
who was now ruminating ...

I heard Lawrence laugh out loudly
and explain why he had fallen.

"The animal knew he had the honor
to carry you.

So he sucked the lungs out of pride.
But he noticed your driving style ...

that you could not be the big man
about whom he had heard ...

and that you were an ordinary person
which he had to throw off as quickly as possible.

He blew the air out, the saddle belt
became looser and you flew off.

Pride comes before the fall. "

The visit went well. But Walter
still had terrible saddle pain for days.

The conference ended,
as it was then seen, in a success.

Transjordan and Mesopotamia were
kingdoms. The latter is now called Iraq.

It would be on behalf of the League of Nations
for the time being under British rule.

If the monarchies proved sustainable,
they would become independent.

Arabia also remained under British rule ...

until there was one government
for all rival tribes.

The same was true
the mandate of Palestine ...

where the tensions between Arabs
and Jews assumed threatening forms.

Then Churchill traveled
to Palestine.

Russell Pasha gave Winston one
frightening warning.

'He said we were unprecedented
fanaticism would encounter.

And that during the train journey an attack
would be committed on Churchill. "

Walter realized that Palestine
even more dangerous than Egypt.

By that warning
Walter was very alert ...

when the train was in the heat
slowly traveled further ...

through Sinai on the way to Palestine.

The next morning, Churchill left
stop the train ...

and demanded a bath in the hot water
from the steam engine.

"In Gaza we would talk with
a number of Arab leaders.

There were about 2000 people outside, and
while Churchill was being addressed ...

the noise became stronger.
When it was time to go ...

the crowd did not move, and
did not want us to go to the train.

Churchill asked Lawrence: Is this
a demonstration for or against us?

He said: They just want to look at you.

But how long, Churchill asked.
If it takes too long, you can sweep me up.

Then I experienced how much prestige
Lawrence enjoyed with these peoples.

Police on horseback tried the crowd
get away.

But they grabbed the bridles
and pushed the horses backwards.

Meanwhile, the crowd came
getting closer to us.

Lawrence raised his hand,
and I looked at all those faces.

Lawrence spoke a few words.

Those oriental faces looked at him
meanwhile, full of dedication.

Then he stepped aside. And like the
Red Sea once passed through the Israelites ...

that is how it appeared here in the crowd
a gangway.

They walked back and bowed
in the meantime.

But as soon as Churchill progressed,
they stopped.

Lawrence followed, it was
a sign to show their devotion.

For many threw themselves on the ground,
with his arms out to him.

Winston saw it and said to me:
They worship him.

The crowd stayed us
follow a short distance.

Escorted by just about whole
We finally reached Gaza by train. '

Lawrence's influence became clear again
when they came to Jerusalem.

"The train stopped before Jerusalem.
I heard noise at the locomotive.

A number of Arabs blocked
the track with their own body.

The noise became harder than a part
from the crowd came to us.

Winston smoked equally unperturbed
as always a cigar ...

while Lawrence opened a window.

When his face appeared, there fell
an absolute silence, just like in Gaza.

He spoke for a long time. Again I had the feeling
that those brown men worshiped him.

The crowd cheered.

Lawrence walked to Winston and said
that the Arabs wanted to see him.

Winston walked to the window,
Lawrence was behind him.

Two brightly dressed Arabs
came forward...

and gave Mr. Churchill a writing.

It was a petition about the Jewish
influence in Palestine.

Winston accepted him.

When he put him in his pocket,
the crowd cheered.

They started as children
to dance around.

When the train drove away, they continued to dance
and they waved us out.

That was the last delay
before we reached Jerusalem. "

Lawrence once again had a possibility
prevent serious incident ...

and Walter was greatly relieved when she
enter the station of Jerusalem.

They stayed in the residence
from the high commissioner.

Walter found it amusing to
discover who the previous owner was.

'The building looked fairly modern.

Much nicer than anything we do
from the station.

It stood on the Mount of Olives,
and was built for Emperor Wilhelm.

It had its palace in the East
must become.

The German eagle was still
above the entrance gate.

Then it became the residence
from Herbert Samuel.

That is how the high commissioner lived
in a building ...

that for the 'supreme'
was meant ...

to get his business from there in the eastern
part of his empire.

On a hill there was a small,
refined building ...

with a seat in it that offered a view
about the vast landscape:

the seat of the emperor.

Here, by the grace of God
and those of old enemies and new ...

British and allies ...

Wilhelm had the expanse
want to think about his area. '

Walter liked to sit in the chair
from the emperor.

But he exaggerated the wish of the
'Supreme' to build a realm.

The Germans saw the Ottoman Empire as
a means to bother the British.

And the emperor had managed to
to have the sultan at his side in World War I.

But it is unlikely
that he wanted to take over the whole region.

Here too Walter was fascinated by it
effect that Lawrence had on the population.

"It was beautiful to Lawrence
to see in his Arab clothes.

But the reaction of the Arabs
was even more striking.

Everywhere he came to Jerusalem ...

Arabs came rushing,
and sometimes they threw themselves at his feet.

Then he hesitated for a moment, then
to say something to those people. "

Churchill also fascinated Walter
increasingly.

"I had faces at Scotland Yard
learn to study.

That's why I watched that from Winston.

When he visited the holy places,
the Holy Sepulcher and Bethlehem ...

he was visibly moved.

He just stood there, did not say a word
and then left in silence. "

Both at the sights
as during private conversations ...

Winston had to both rival
to keep parties to friend.

He said that the British government is the largest
Muslim state in the world was ...

and that he has the friendship with
the Arabs very much appreciated.

But he also said that the British are kind
Jewish home state in Palestine.

That's why he planted a tree at the
Jewish university on the Scopus mountain.

Churchill would not
the last politician is ...

who noticed that the problems in it
Middle East are virtually insoluble.

It is no different nowadays.

As Walter discovered later,
also found Lawrence ...

that Winston occurred during the visit
a true statesman had shown.

"Lawrence sent him a copy
from his book Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

I have seen what he up front
had written. There stood:

"To Winston,
that made for a happy ending.

Eleven years after we have a reasonable arrangement
our work is still standing.

I would give you two copies
should send. "

There were no more incidents
when they returned to Alexandria.

But Walter will be relieved on board
the boat have stepped for the return journey.

It was a relaxing journey ...

doing Sicily and Naples
for the sights.

Churchill was after six weeks
on 12 April in London again.

Both in his professional and his
he would have problems with his private life.

The situation in Ireland got out of hand,
and the next year and a half ...

Walter always had to deal with Irish
threats to kill Churchill.

But it was in his private life
that he was most affected.

Walter was powerless here.

A few weeks after his return ...

his mother fell when she was in high heels
walked down the stairs.

The leg had to be amputated,
after which she got cold fire.

"I heard Winston at night
come down quickly.

He still put his nightdress in his pants
when he said with tears in his eyes:

Thompson, we're going to lady
Randolph, I fear she is dying.

He ran all the way to the house
from his mother, 200 meters away.

He told me on the way
his mother had lost her leg ...

and had bled heavily, and not one
she expected it to survive.

I said if I had the same blood group,
I liked to donate blood.

He put his arm around me and said:

I'll never forget,
even if it is too late.

The doctors came and my blood group
it turned out to be the same, but it was too late. '

Churchill kept his word
and did not forget Walter's offer.

Confidence grew as a result of this incident
and the friendship between them.

In his first year as a bodyguard ...

Walter had not saved him alone
when his life was in danger ...

but they did too
built up a friendship ...

that the rest of their lives
would continue.

They would make a lot of changes together
experience ...

while Winstons career highlights
reached, and again seemed to collapse.

Walter also received other tasks.

But then Winston against self-government
India was and there were threats again ...

he turned to Walter again
to secure him.

But the next threat ...

came from a side they did not
both of them could have been foreseen.

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