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Then with three or four hits we managed to force it.

Then one by one outside while they were shooting,

but they were shooting at the cows and we were doing it on time.

I lost track of the others, there was a hen-house but they weren't there.

I went around the house but it was the wrong direction,

I went out on the street and all of a sudden I heard somebody saying:

"Come here with your hands up!"

I shot at him and went hiding in the hen-house and from there into a ditch.

From inside the ditch i saw the road going down towards the cemetery.

But there was lots of snow.

I walked inside the ditch filled with water in order not to leave tracks in the snow.

I couldn't see the rest of my group anymore.

So I walked on in this ditch and then into another ditch.

In the meantime I heard the Germans were gathering, I could hear their horses.

I sat down near an elm and heard the belltower of Barco.

It was one o'clock, half past one, two o'clock.

With the dawning daylight I saw there was a house nearby and went there.

There were no watchdogs, so I went to the window of the house

and saw an old lady with a stick lighting the fire.

I looked around and slowly slowly ...