European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

You always had to look out;

always make sure that nobody saw you and that you managed.

Or the boys who stayed at home were always in fear of being summarily executed.

All the members of the armed forces who stayed at home were summarily executed.

Micha told me what he saw.

The first was about a train, which came into Berlin to deliver Russian prisoners to Germany.

The people inside were screaming like mad,

as they were without water and everything.

Some threw stones into the train.

Then some said: “Open the door!” so they could get some air.

Micha said that the bodies had been eaten.

The ones that were still alive had been eating the dead ones,

because they did not have anything else.

Having seen this, my husband said: “On account of this crime I will not go back.”

Her husband, a deserter

My later husband was a deserter, as well.

He was on holiday and was at home in July 1944.

Instead of going back, he said good bye and went to Klagenfurt.

There he didn’t board the train, but went to a neighbour’s, that night,

where another one already was (from the Wehrmacht as well).