1943 year WW2 You are a young man, you are 18 years old, you graduated from school recently. And you were taken into the army. You are an ordinary private who washes floors. Well, and one day the general said: "Anyone who knows at least 15 languages can stop washing floors and get a job as a translator for interrogations." You are very lucky. You are a polyglot and you know 16 languages. So you went to the General one day and told him about it "Pft— Kid, I was kidding do you seriously know 16 languages?? I don't believe you."