en: lipej-kolenik: chapter-1: c: 1 title: "Anschluss, persecution, propaganda for resistance" subtitles: sequence-1: s: 1 from: "00:00:00,08" to: "00:00:04,05" text: "The father, Wasilij, was still young." sequence-2: s: 2 from: "00:00:04,05" to: "00:00:18,27" text: "He kept saying of National Socialism: “That will be no good.”" sequence-3: s: 3 from: "00:00:18,27" to: "00:00:20,17" text: ~ sequence-4: s: 4 from: "00:00:20,17" to: "00:00:24,12" text: "Afterwards, the authority was taken over by the Nazis," sequence-5: s: 5 from: "00:00:24,12" to: "00:00:31,28" text: "they immediately locked up a number of people of the Slovenian minority" sequence-6: s: 6 from: "00:00:31,28" to: "00:00:36,15" text: ~ sequence-7: s: 7 from: "00:00:36,15" to: "00:00:45,18" text: "and priests. We saw it would not be the way it had been promised before." sequence-8: s: 8 from: "00:00:45,18" to: "00:00:50,20" text: "It was a time without work and bread." sequence-9: s: 9 from: "00:00:50,20" to: "00:01:00,08" text: "That helped the national socialists to come into power." sequence-10: s: 10 from: "00:01:00,08" to: "00:01:09,25" text: "And many let themselves be led by the propaganda" sequence-11: s: 11 from: "00:01:09,25" to: "00:01:16,20" text: "and even believed that everything would be okay again." sequence-12: s: 12 from: "00:01:16,20" to: "00:01:22,27" text: "That the people would live well – under Adolf Hitler." sequence-13: s: 13 from: "00:01:22,27" to: "00:01:24,04" text: ~ sequence-14: s: 14 from: "00:01:24,04" to: "00:01:36,00" text: "But when the first Slovenians were locked up, we already knew my father was right." sequence-15: s: 15 from: "00:01:36,00" to: "00:01:37,04" text: ~ sequence-16: s: 16 from: "00:01:37,04" to: "00:01:47,05" text: "The people lost their belief in Adolf Hitler" sequence-17: s: 17 from: "00:01:47,05" to: "00:01:54,12" text: "and the resistance formed against fascism and Hitlerism." sequence-18: s: 18 from: "00:01:54,12" to: "00:02:05,18" text: "The first deserters from the ‘Wehrmacht’ had already escaped to Yugoslavia in 1939." sequence-19: s: 19 from: "00:02:05,18" to: "00:02:17,13" text: "After the occupation of Yugoslavia they were arrested or had gone into hiding under a false name;" sequence-20: s: 20 from: "00:02:17,13" to: "00:02:18,11" text: ~ sequence-21: s: 21 from: "00:02:18,11" to: "00:02:22,07" text: "as my colleague Karl Potoschki did." sequence-22: s: 22 from: "00:02:22,07" to: "00:02:31,04" text: "He was working under false name at a hotel in Bosnia." sequence-23: s: 23 from: "00:02:31,04" to: "00:02:45,07" text: "On the 20th October 1939, he was shot together with 20.000 ‘chosen ones’ and finished off." sequence-24: s: 24 from: "00:02:45,07" to: "00:02:47,02" text: ~ sequence-25: s: 25 from: "00:02:47,02" to: "00:02:57,07" text: "Those coming back after the occupation of Yugoslavia were mostly locked up," sequence-26: s: 26 from: "00:02:57,07" to: "00:03:05,06" text: "respectively were the cadres of the liberation front of the Slovenes of Carinthia." sequence-27: s: 27 from: "00:03:05,06" to: "00:03:15,08" text: "Some joined the partisans straight away; others later on, but the beginning had been made." sequence-28: s: 28 from: "00:03:15,08" to: "00:03:22,27" text: "From day to day the resistance grew stronger." sequence-29: s: 29 from: "00:03:22,27" to: "00:03:32,29" text: "Today, when you realise how courageous the people were –" sequence-30: s: 30 from: "00:03:32,29" to: "00:03:40,09" text: "then again it involved the ‘head’ and the people didn’t have a clue." sequence-31: s: 31 from: "00:03:40,09" to: "00:03:51,20" text: "The plain people were the ones that helped the rebellion." sequence-32: s: 32 from: "00:03:51,20" to: "00:03:55,19" text: ~ sequence-33: s: 33 from: "00:03:55,19" to: "00:04:02,08" text: "Without the help of the rural population, resistance would have been impossible." sequence-34: s: 34 from: "00:04:02,08" to: "00:04:14,03" text: "Only because of this it was possible that the number of partisans became bigger each day." sequence-35: s: 35 from: "00:04:14,03" to: "00:04:20,11" text: "And the hope that one day things would change."