European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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You’re wondering what a bomaska is?
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It’s a quarter piece of paper on which something is written, half in German and half in Russian.
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Can you read Russian? Yes, I said, so-so. She asked how so-so? I just said so-so.
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The Russian alphabet has more letters than Cyrillic’s.
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I knew a little German and a little Russian and a little Serbocroatian and of course Slovene; so I read it.
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The younger girl told me that if I get caught by the Soviet’s, that this bomaska will get me an extra piece of bread.
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I had no idea why this bomaska was so valuable.
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At any rate, it’s what the younger girl said to me,
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that when the Russians capture me I must show this and I’ll receive an extra piece of bread.
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Mobilization into the Wehrmacht
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We were recruited while serving in the Arbeitsdienst.
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I was assigned to the German infantry.
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By the time I got home in December 1942, I was recruited into the German army, forcibly mobilized.
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I was an 18 year old youth at the time and had no idea what the army was or what a weapon was.
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I came to the German army at Brno in the Czech Republic; it was called Brünn in German.
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I was in the army December 1942, and January and February.
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We had what they call in German Ausbildung, which was a drill using German weapons.
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We were given an assignment of which I knew nothing about: to fight against the Russian soldiers.
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We were sent in February 1943, Germany was suffering
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from hard times due to the Soviet troops conquering German troops in Stalingrad,
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