European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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When we got up there, there was a barrier.
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Some of our people jumped up and tried to clear the way.
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All of a sudden they pointed these hoses at us and instead of a greeting, they soaked us.
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On the other side the English were standing.
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I got so annoyed: “Oh, these are our confederates?”
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We laughed into their faces.
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Our women - our mothers were crying and screaming.
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At that time I said: “If I could, I would jump into his face and rip his face apart.”
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In this situation, Austria being liberated, we being liberated,
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and you still have to face things like this, made us furious.
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Well, up to 1955, they were able to learn German and Slovenian in school, as it was a bilingual area.
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All of a sudden, with the treaty, it was different again. A state treaty was around 1957.
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The teachers went out onto the streets with the children
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and protested that they couldn’t teach and learn Slovenian.
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Later our children had to be subscribed by their parents, if they wanted them to learn Slovenian.
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Only the oldest ones didn’t have to.
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But the lessons weren’t the same as the German ones.
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They had only a few lessons.
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That was another discrimination of the Carinthian Slovenes.
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Immediately after the war
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