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Convalescent soldiers from the military hospital were used for that and there we got the fuses.
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A few days later, in Benghazi, a quarter of the biggest ammunition depot the Rommel-army kept in Africa was blown up.
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With this a difficult problem emerged:
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Six Arabs and one German soldier were shot dead,
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who had not participated at all and now the question came up:
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“It is your fault that innocent people got shot by the ‘Wehrmacht’!”
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It had to be weighed up: Which side has to take the higher blame?
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If you don’t do anything against this criminal regime,
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if you join in silently, how much are you then to blame?
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War costs so many deaths - don’t you have to consider
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that even innocent people loose their life in the fight against fascism?
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That is already a difficult question in civil life, it was the same under war conditions.
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We said the fight against the fascist regime had to come before anything else;
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a very difficult ethic decision.
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Well, the question of desertion was obviously discussed between all the people who were active as anti-fascists.
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Only in Africa there was no front which’s lines could have been passed.
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In Africa warfare was mobile.
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You could only change fronts if a unit was enclosed by the English.
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Then it was possible to say: “I would like to run over”. Or to say: “I’ll run away”, then you avoided captivity.
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When I came to Poland and Russia, that did not work because,
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