European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

and they gave me castor oil and beat me up in 1939.

I went to the Army, I stayed away five years

without talking to him, then a common friend came up to me and said

“Look, that guy … “ and I told him that I didn't even want to see that stupid guy.

I didn't want to react, we even remained sort of friends,

but I remember there were two or three older men with clubs,

and I was weighing about 40 kilos by then,

I mean, being beaten up was not funny.

See, this is why I never wanted to see the fascists,

I'm “glad” they gave me 42 months of war to do. I never liked them.

Conclusion: against war and fascism 

When I came home, I joined (I hadn’t been politically organized before) the SED,

that was the association of the social democrats, communists and many independent people.

I worked in the ministry occasionally

and was temporarily at the SED in Tempelhof as the 2nd secretary,

later on even as party secretary for a company in Johannisthal.

After 1989/90 I have been particularly interested in those moor soldier meetings.

I arranged that moor soldiers from Köpenick could give interviews.

We have good contact and I have been going there every year.

I have been taking part in their meetings: against war and against fascism.