European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The generals, who did not agree with Hitler, also wanted to correspond with each other.
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For that they needed people who gave 140 characters - and I was one.
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Insofar I got to the highest post and had contact to generals, who were anything but anti-fascists.
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But they were objectors to Hitler for many reasons.
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As a radio operator I was able to do a lot more illegally than before.
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Soldier in Africa
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I was sent to Africa. I had to fight in a motorbike patrol.
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We agreed before we became soldiers
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we would never shoot somebody who had been said to be an enemy.
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We would shoot into the air, we would never shoot anybody, except in self defence.
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I kept going on with my illegal work.
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In the military hospital in Tripoli I was approached by an anti-fascist medical group
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and an anti-fascist radio operator group,
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whether I would be able to get fuses, as in Benghazi some comrades were ready to blow something up.
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They had enough explosives, but no fuses.
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I had to organize this by taking the alarm post together with two reliable men.
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Convalescent soldiers from the military hospital were used for that and there we got the fuses.
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A few days later, in Benghazi, a quarter of the biggest ammunition depot the Rommel-army kept in Africa was blown up.
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With this a difficult problem emerged:
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Six Arabs and one German soldier were shot dead,
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