European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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It was a bagatelle that brought me in front of the court martial in Africa.
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If they had known what I really did, I would have been summarily executed.
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As it was, I was taken to the court martial and condemned to the punishment battalion in Africa.
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That was horrible because you were totally isolated
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and because you were often sent out in front of the tanks – as cannon catch.
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Near the Highfalla Pass, near Tobruk.
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I was seriously wounded after six weeks in the punishment battalion.
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I was unconscious for two days and then came to Athens and there my eye had to be removed.
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The one side of my face is paralysed because of this injury.
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I was not fit for war any more and was retrained as a radio operator.
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In spite of all my bad luck, this was the best that could happen.
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Radio operators were not only privileged.
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Due to their occupation they were able to listen to what BBC or the station ‘Freies Deutschland’ were broadcasting.
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Every radio operator did that, regardless whether he was a Nazi or an anti-fascist.
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When searching for your remote station you had to contact. If you came across any other station you listened into that.
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But that wasn’t the only thing a clever radio operator could do. He could also get in touch with another radio station where a comrade sat.
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My big advantage was that I gave and received the highest speed, that is to say 140 characters per minute, which was the police radio.
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The highest speed that was generally used in the ‘Wehrmacht’ was 120 characters, giving and receiving.
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Because I gave 140, I was of interest to the generals.
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They knew, the police radio was not intercepted by the ‘Gestapo’ and the ‘SS’.
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