European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Later on I got permission to learn shorthand writing.

But for practicing we only had a slate.

On that of course shorthand – is quite an illusion.

But still I learned it.

Ban of "Fichte", Illegality

We were ready for getting prohibited.

We knew we would find a way to keep going somehow.

For that reason the members (not all of them) divided into groups of five;

one led a few groups of five and later we changed it into groups of three.

It was easier to keep track of it.

And for the meetings – you did not know so many working illegally.

‘Fichte’ was forbidden in the end and so the rest of the work was illegal.

Afterwards we organized the leadership for Tempelhof in our flat –

these music circles.

My sister used to play the violin and we played the mandolin.

The people in the house liked the music.

And there we planned the flyers and organized the work, the meetings and all the problems that resulted of this.

One more thing:

Before the 1st May 1933 the leaders of the union,

of the German Trade Union Federation,