European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Just before I was released the documents came.

And there an associate, Fritz Fiedkau, was declared (in the documents) to be an SS-man.

So, in the camp, where he had been before they changed his documents in the assessment

they made the antifascist into an SS-man.

And an SS-man had already gone home as an antifascist!

I did report that later on.

We went over to Munsterlager which had the same pattern;

corporals, sergeants and so on, they were in command there.

“Don’t let yourself get released towards the east!”

In October 1946 I got on a transport to West-Berlin.

This is how I got home from war captivity.

My parents lived somewhere else, as they had been bombed out.

And now the new life began after all these incidents that you experienced over the years.

Italy, Tunesia, capture

We got to Naples.

There was a ship, which had been declared as a hospital ship (with a red cross on it) –

that had been transporting ammunition.

The Italian members of the resistance found out about it and the ship was bombarded.

And we had to take the wounded into hospital.

Often ships were declared as hospital ships but transported ammunition.