European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Afterwards I always thought:

Well, I have to get out.

I made an application to be moved to the military hospital in Klagenfurt.

They allowed it.

On the first day in Klagenfurt, my mother came to see me.

She told me that the partisans said:

“Come and join us soon, we are waiting for you!”

After 14 days the medical consultant of the hospital said:

“I will grant you a holiday although I know 100% that you will never come back.”

My answer was: “I will come back, where else should I go?”

I was with walking sticks, I couldn’t go anywhere.

It is just a shame that I didn’t go back to that doctor after the war.

Then I could have reported: “Mr. Consultant, I am back.”

Who supported the partisans?

Well, there were only few that weren’t with the partisans.

In the town there were more.

Bleiburg is a known town and Carinthia was a Nazi stronghold,

but the population outside was of different opinion.

There were only few and they did not report us to the police –

kept quiet and did not keep in touch with us.