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well, then our pioneer fraction was called.

Fascism in childhood and youth

Fascism was a subject,

because of the experiences that we picked up from the immigrants.

In our youth group we invited immigrants from Austria and Germany to tell their story.

We already knew before the high finance and the generals

pushed the power towards the Nazi leading clique:

Hitler means war.

We not only grew into the anti-fascist fight,

but as well into the fight for peace. It was the same question to us:

the anti-fascist fight and the fight for peace.

That obviously assumed that we threw light on it.

After my youth consecration, when I left school, I took part in my first Marxist seminar.

There, young people who were interested,

learned all the basics if they wanted to become a functionary of the labour movement.

So they were not only practical experiences that were being reflected,

but we also had seminars learning to deal with the political opponent.

For example, it was obligatory for a functionary of the socialist youth

to have read Hitler’s book ‚Mein Kampf’.

We could tell the Nazi officials, who didn’t know as well as we did, what the real aims were.