European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

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.

They could not understand

why I had so much political interest and why I am for the Slovenes.

Well, the disappointment was big when the English came

and treated us like enemies again.

We weren’t even allowed to go to church without ID.

Even the English were quite discriminating.

When the English came to the farmer’s the first time,

armed and strict, I (being a child) thought:

‘Why does the war keep on, although it is over?’

We did not understand that there were still armed men coming to the house.