European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

“You know by yourself where you belong.”

That was easily said in those days.

But it was not an easy thing to do.

But the English bombarded Klagenfurt in those days.

When the police came afterwards to ask if I had reported somewhere, my mother said:

“Maybe he has been killed in the air raid.”

My Mother was clever. There was an illegal co-worker of the partisans in Bleiburg.

After 2 to 3 weeks, my mother gave one of them a parcel to take it to this woman.

Later this woman took the parcel to the post with my military address on it,

the one I should have reported to after my holiday.

The parcel came back again…

The parcels kept going backwards and forwards.

Conscription to the Wehrmacht, injury

In March 43 I had to go to the army physician because I had to enlist.

I already had connection to the partisans.

In August I received the call-up to the army.

I said: “What shall we do?”

They wanted me to enlist but my mother was against it. Mother was frightened:

“They will destroy everything and burn our house down” and cried.

But I thought that the families would not have to pay so much.