en: ana-zablatnik: chapter-6: c: 6 title: "Under arrest; end of the war" subtitles: sequence-1: s: 1 from: "00:00:00,29" to: "00:00:17,03" text: "They knocked hard on the door on the 5th May at 11 o’clock in the evening: “Open up, open up!”" sequence-2: s: 2 from: "00:00:17,03" to: "00:00:21,07" text: "My father opened and they asked where I was." sequence-3: s: 3 from: "00:00:21,07" to: "00:00:26,10" text: "I was lying in the living room, but I heard everything." sequence-4: s: 4 from: "00:00:26,10" to: "00:00:35,28" text: "Then two or three came in and shouted: “Get up!”" sequence-5: s: 5 from: "00:00:35,28" to: "00:00:37,23" text: "“What’s wrong?” I asked." sequence-6: s: 6 from: "00:00:37,23" to: "00:00:42,21" text: "“Get up and you will see then what’s going to happen.”" sequence-7: s: 7 from: "00:00:42,21" to: "00:00:46,03" text: "Of course I got up then." sequence-8: s: 8 from: "00:00:46,03" to: "00:00:56,18" text: "My family - the father, the mother, a Polish helper," sequence-9: s: 9 from: "00:00:56,18" to: "00:01:05,22" text: "and my three brothers all had to get up, as well." sequence-10: s: 10 from: "00:01:05,22" to: "00:01:12,05" text: "They all had to sit down behind the table." sequence-11: s: 11 from: "00:01:12,05" to: "00:01:17,18" text: "I was put towards the door so I could not look at the others." sequence-12: s: 12 from: "00:01:17,18" to: "00:01:19,16" text: "Then we were interrogated." sequence-13: s: 13 from: "00:01:19,16" to: "00:01:22,27" text: "One after the other, the mother first..." sequence-14: s: 14 from: "00:01:22,27" to: "00:01:26,19" text: "I was interrogated last." sequence-15: s: 15 from: "00:01:26,19" to: "00:01:33,29" text: "Unfortunately they had found something and I had to confess…" sequence-16: s: 16 from: "00:01:33,29" to: "00:01:37,07" text: "Because otherwise the family…" sequence-17: s: 17 from: "00:01:37,07" to: "00:01:40,15" text: ~ sequence-18: s: 18 from: "00:01:40,15" to: "00:01:49,24" text: "I had to confess and then it was decided that they would march me off early in the morning." sequence-19: s: 19 from: "00:01:49,24" to: "00:02:03,21" text: ~ sequence-20: s: 20 from: "00:02:03,21" to: "00:02:10,27" text: "In the morning I asked one of the guards:" sequence-21: s: 21 from: "00:02:10,27" to: "00:02:12,18" text: "“Well, what shall I put on?”" sequence-22: s: 22 from: "00:02:12,18" to: "00:02:21,04" text: "He said: “You won’t have warm feet for long anyway. You won’t need anything.”" sequence-23: s: 23 from: "00:02:21,04" to: "00:02:24,10" text: ~ sequence-24: s: 24 from: "00:02:24,10" to: "00:02:27,25" text: "At 6 am in the morning we left home." sequence-25: s: 25 from: "00:02:27,25" to: "00:02:38,11" text: "The whole village looked green because of all these soldiers and field police." sequence-26: s: 26 from: "00:02:38,11" to: "00:02:41,13" text: "Most of them were field police." sequence-27: s: 27 from: "00:02:41,13" to: "00:02:49,15" text: "We went up to where the constabulary was, at the next inn." sequence-28: s: 28 from: "00:02:49,15" to: "00:02:58,28" text: "There they showed me a map of Ludmannsdorf" sequence-29: s: 29 from: "00:02:58,28" to: "00:03:05,04" text: "and I could see that everything was put on record;" sequence-30: s: 30 from: "00:03:05,04" to: "00:03:13,04" text: "all the houses that we had had connections," sequence-31: s: 31 from: "00:03:13,04" to: "00:03:14,18" text: ~ sequence-32: s: 32 from: "00:03:14,18" to: "00:03:23,22" text: "just everything. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I couldn’t work out, why." sequence-33: s: 33 from: "00:03:23,22" to: "00:03:26,24" text: "Then we drove away" sequence-34: s: 34 from: "00:03:26,24" to: "00:03:28,02" text: ~ sequence-35: s: 35 from: "00:03:28,02" to: "00:03:37,24" text: "and went out to Bach where I saw that they had a military lorry." sequence-36: s: 36 from: "00:03:37,24" to: "00:03:44,20" text: "In it were all the others that had been arrested with me." sequence-37: s: 37 from: "00:03:44,20" to: "00:03:47,26" text: "We were 18 persons." sequence-38: s: 38 from: "00:03:47,26" to: "00:03:49,14" text: ~ sequence-39: s: 39 from: "00:03:49,14" to: "00:03:56,26" text: "From there we were taken to the Gestapo in the court house in Klagenfurt." sequence-40: s: 40 from: "00:03:56,26" to: "00:04:02,10" text: "The Gestapo had occupied the first and second floor." sequence-41: s: 41 from: "00:04:02,10" to: "00:04:09,20" text: "Most of the people on the second floor were either waiting for their hearing" sequence-42: s: 42 from: "00:04:09,20" to: "00:04:13,05" text: "or the ones that were to be taken to the camps later on." sequence-43: s: 43 from: "00:04:13,05" to: "00:04:18,15" text: "There we were until Christmas." sequence-44: s: 44 from: "00:04:18,15" to: "00:04:24,13" text: "On the 26th December we were transferred to …" sequence-45: s: 45 from: "00:04:24,13" to: "00:04:26,04" text: ~ sequence-46: s: 46 from: "00:04:26,04" to: "00:04:30,24" text: "On the ground floor was the court and there we waited again." sequence-47: s: 47 from: "00:04:30,24" to: "00:04:33,10" text: ~ sequence-48: s: 48 from: "00:04:33,10" to: "00:04:37,15" text: "One or two weeks later it was the turn for the others." sequence-49: s: 49 from: "00:04:37,15" to: "00:04:46,22" text: "Ten of them were sentenced to death and five taken to the different camps." sequence-50: s: 50 from: "00:04:46,22" to: "00:04:48,06" text: ~ sequence-51: s: 51 from: "00:04:48,06" to: "00:04:53,16" text: "Then it should have been our turn." sequence-52: s: 52 from: "00:04:53,16" to: "00:05:04,28" text: "The ‘Obergerichtsrat’ (high grade judge) „Freißler“, had to go to Berlin and there he died." sequence-53: s: 53 from: "00:05:04,28" to: "00:05:16,16" text: "It was said that he had been shot, or killed by a bomb." sequence-54: s: 54 from: "00:05:16,16" to: "00:05:24,05" text: "Because of that we kept waiting until the war was over." sequence-55: s: 55 from: "00:05:24,05" to: "00:05:31,01" text: "Once there was a message that we would be taken to Graz." sequence-56: s: 56 from: "00:05:31,01" to: "00:05:38,10" text: "There they almost always shot most of the people who were delivered from Klagenfurt to Graz." sequence-57: s: 57 from: "00:05:38,10" to: "00:05:41,18" text: "We were lucky again:" sequence-58: s: 58 from: "00:05:41,18" to: "00:05:50,18" text: "During the night they bombarded and destroyed the railway track and again we stayed in Klagenfurt." sequence-59: s: 59 from: "00:05:50,18" to: "00:05:58,11" text: "We were eventually freed on the 6th." sequence-60: s: 60 from: "00:05:58,11" to: "00:06:02,17" text: ~ sequence-61: s: 61 from: "00:06:02,17" to: "00:06:07,29" text: "Then the supervisor got us to the first floor where somebody was waiting;" sequence-62: s: 62 from: "00:06:07,29" to: "00:06:15,07" text: "and there I got my warrant of arrest," sequence-63: s: 63 from: "00:06:15,07" to: "00:06:23,27" text: "my records and they wished us all the best and said that we were free." sequence-64: s: 64 from: "00:06:23,27" to: "00:06:27,27" text: "But the war wasn’t over yet." sequence-65: s: 65 from: "00:06:27,27" to: "00:06:37,29" text: "I was totally happy, went out of the door and shouted for joy with all my heart:" sequence-66: s: 66 from: "00:06:37,29" to: "00:06:42,17" text: "“I am free!” My cousin, who was picking me up, said:" sequence-67: s: 67 from: "00:06:42,17" to: "00:06:46,23" text: "“Shut up. The war is not over, yet.” She was right." sequence-68: s: 68 from: "00:06:46,23" to: "00:06:48,05" text: ~ sequence-69: s: 69 from: "00:06:48,05" to: "00:06:58,15" text: "Even during the last two days SS marched a female partisan off, cross examined and shot her." sequence-70: s: 70 from: "00:06:58,15" to: "00:07:02,11" text: "That is how it worked for many." sequence-71: s: 71 from: "00:07:02,11" to: "00:07:04,09" text: "With that we were freed." sequence-72: s: 72 from: "00:07:04,09" to: "00:07:07,13" text: ~ sequence-73: s: 73 from: "00:07:07,13" to: "00:07:20,07" text: "At home they were still living in fear." sequence-74: s: 74 from: "00:07:20,07" to: "00:07:25,24" text: "Again and again there were reports: something else happened." sequence-75: s: 75 from: "00:07:25,24" to: "00:07:29,29" text: "There they kidnapped one or killed one or…" sequence-76: s: 76 from: "00:07:29,29" to: "00:07:34,00" text: "Well, to us, thank God, that did not happen."