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messenger service,

food (that was important, too),

clothes,

and a very important thing: medical supplies.

They were important, because there was always somebody wounded,

and they had to attend to him until they had the opportunity to take him across the river Drau

into the Karawanken, because there was a partisan hospital where they took the wounded.

Prohibition of Slovenian culture

The resettling of the Carinthian Slovenes.

With the occupation of Yugoslavia they already transferred our parishes into German parishes.

We weren’t even allowed to sing Slovenian in church.

We had an inn, and there we had to hang up posters:

“Carinthians speak German!”

You always had to look out who was at the inn – as there were spies around –

whether you spoke Slovenian or German.

Of course, if you knew there was nobody around, you spoke Slovenian.

In 1942 they resettled five families from Ludmannsdorf.

We were on the list, as well.

Allegedly 16 Families of the parish were to be resettled.

They stopped it then.