 However, when Margaret Scharff learned of her husband's destination, she, angry at the thought of a fluent English-speaking German soldier's life being wasted at the Eastern Front, intervened.She talked her way into the office of a German general in Berlin and pleaded her husband's case, convincing the general of the error which was about to take place.The general sent a telegram to Scharff's panzer unit, informing his superiors that Scharff was to be transferred immediately to the "Dolmetscher Kompanie XII" (Interpreters Company 12), based in Wiesbaden, to serve as a German/English interpreter.