European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

I got so annoyed: “Oh, these are our confederates?”

We laughed into their faces.

Our women - our mothers were crying and screaming.

At that time I said: “If I could, I would jump into his face and rip his face apart.”

In this situation, Austria being liberated, we being liberated,

and you still have to face things like this, made us furious.

Well, up to 1955, they were able to learn German and Slovenian in school, as it was a bilingual area.

All of a sudden, with the treaty, it was different again. A state treaty was around 1957.

The teachers went out onto the streets with the children

and protested that they couldn’t teach and learn Slovenian.

Later our children had to be subscribed by their parents, if they wanted them to learn Slovenian.

Only the oldest ones didn’t have to.

But the lessons weren’t the same as the German ones.

They had only a few lessons.

That was another discrimination of the Carinthian Slovenes.

Immediately after the war

Well, after the war the partisans came to Ludmannsdorf on the 10th May

after they had been in Klagenfurt and everywhere before.

They billeted at Boris’, where the police, the constabulary had been,

and we got the order to provide some food.