Oh, God, he was not asking that question. Of course, he was, but Dieter really would have preferred if he hadn't. What was the logical answer? He couldn't very well say he'd struck a deal with his captor and gotten a one-way ticket back to Germany, now could he?
"I... escaped, sir." Nervous still, he couldn't help it, but he supposed that the one plus about being as completely gone-to-pieces as he usually was was that it made it difficult to tell when you were nervous because you always were or because you'd done or said something wrong.