European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

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.

From Naples we were flown to Tunisia in a Ju52.

It flew close to sea level – it never went higher.

A few machines of that group were brought down.

They all died a wretched death drowning in the Mediterranean Sea.

There was no way of rescuing them.

When we came to Tunisia they said at the airport: “What do you want here?”

Many people or many soldiers were heading back.

Higher units – Rommel and these were here, too.

That was in March. Around the beginning of April – the Rommel-army had pulled back quite a bit –

arouse this mood between us, too.

Our sergeant, a confirmed Nazi, said: