European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

all the other posters were hanging.

In the morning the people walked past these posters, on which was written:

“This is how the war is being prepared, resist early enough, before it is too late.”

But we then asked ourselves: “What did we achieve?”

We realised that we had achieved only little and decided:

”From now on we will work at a stronger pace.”

Many of us knew how to handle explosives and possessed fuses.

As my home town Eger was a railway junction

and therefore a strategically important line from Eger via Hof went to Berlin,

the other one from Karlsbad Reichenberg to Breslau,

the next one via Marktredwitz to Munich

and another one via Frankfurt towards west,

we decided to demolish the tracks.

That is what we did

and they were not able to carry out any armament transports,

strategic transports and no passenger transports on this line for two days.

It took them a while to manage that and they could not find out who did it.

Political education/information

We carried our knowledge out into the villages.

The labour movement was strong in the towns,