European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Ban of "Fichte", Illegality

We were ready for getting prohibited.

We knew we would find a way to keep going somehow.

For that reason the members (not all of them) divided into groups of five;

one led a few groups of five and later we changed it into groups of three.

It was easier to keep track of it.

And for the meetings – you did not know so many working illegally.

‘Fichte’ was forbidden in the end and so the rest of the work was illegal.

Afterwards we organized the leadership for Tempelhof in our flat –

these music circles.

My sister used to play the violin and we played the mandolin.

The people in the house liked the music.

And there we planned the flyers and organized the work, the meetings and all the problems that resulted of this.

One more thing:

Before the 1st May 1933 the leaders of the union,

of the German Trade Union Federation,

called the workers to go to ‘Tempelhofer Feld’ on that day.

That was such a case where the union men thought it to be a betrayal …

We went out there on our bicycles on the 30th April and celebrated May day out there.

When we came back we stopped to eat somewhere at Samitzsee and had a drink and sang.