European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Because the army units staying then in Warsaw,

those were soldiers, who did not know Warsaw.

And it was the beginning of my adventure with the war.

We were brought up in a different way before the war.

I belonged to the scouts from my twelfth birthday,

so it was for four or five years at that time.

And the scouts shaped us, it was different from nowadays.

There was a rule: love to your country, physical fitness, and sports and some other things.

Hate against Germans for long time

I did have problems because of that.

As long as I was healthy, nothing; but when I was ill,

I started having delusions, bad feelings and fears about people.

When I saw somebody in uniform coming, I used to hide.

The Germans were my deadly enemies for a long time.

It took many years before I had it worked out

that it weren’t the Germans as such – it were just the fascists.

But not all are German; they can be from anywhere, in other countries.

Discrimination of Slovenians after war

There were conflicts because I was a Slovenian.

I even had conflicts with other Slovenians.