European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

But we then asked ourselves: “What did we achieve?”

We realised that we had achieved only little and decided:

”From now on we will work at a stronger pace.”

Many of us knew how to handle explosives and possessed fuses.

As my home town Eger was a railway junction

and therefore a strategically important line from Eger via Hof went to Berlin,

the other one from Karlsbad Reichenberg to Breslau,

the next one via Marktredwitz to Munich

and another one via Frankfurt towards west,

we decided to demolish the tracks.

That is what we did

and they were not able to carry out any armament transports,

strategic transports and no passenger transports on this line for two days.

It took them a while to manage that and they could not find out who did it.

Political education/information

We carried our knowledge out into the villages.

The labour movement was strong in the towns,

in the villages mainly rural population lived, and a few craftsmen.

In order to get an influence there,

we from the Socialist Youth cycled to those places, carried out some events, tried to involve the people