European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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A group of partisans, about 20 of them
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(a few were with us as well) went to the constabulary
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and the town hall and took whatever they could do with.
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At the constabulary they seized weapons and the type writers and stationery.
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The country constables were having their evening meal
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and unfortunately one was shot there, because he didn’t put his hands up.
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One hand went to the pistol - he put the other hand up - and with that he risked his life.
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The partisan first shouted: “Hands up!” which he didn’t do and so he was shot.
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That was the first dead person in our house.
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The field police occupied our house for 10 days, they all were regular SS men
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and searched the village and the forest where they assumed the partisans to be around.
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Of course they had already pulled back and disappeared.
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Life in fear
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They were very frightened – of course.
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They heard when one was caught and another one…
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We always thought: ‘hopefully that won’t happen to us’.
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Everybody was living with fear at this time;
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at home, as well. They did not know what was going to happen.
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In our family: my brother fell in 1942 in Russia,
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1943 they enlisted the second brother, 1944 I was arrested,
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