European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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As a radio operator you are relatively far behind where the general staff sits.
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And they sit 50 to 60 km behind the front.
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Most of the time I was with the army, at the higher posts.
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We were away from the front, so it did not work there, but the opportunity had to be taken.
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I would have done so like many others if the option had occurred.
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Using codes
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In the summer of 1938, before the Nazis marched in,
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we agreed that we not only want to keep in touch,
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but we wanted to develop a secure code in which we were able to correspond politically.
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It was a cipher which the Gestapo was not able to figure out until the end:
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A very shifty system, the so called „two-box-system“.
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When a cipher was found, you only needed to press out the sender and the addressee to find out more.
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That was why the code had to be masked again – that was my idea.
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We then arranged that we would use the Goebbel’s weekly article,
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that he used to write either in the ’Völkischer Beobachter’ or in the ’Reich’, as a disguise.
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We then underlined in red and in the accompanying letter we wrote
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this sentence of Goebbels is important, you need to discuss this sentence.
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The only function was to distract, because this article was carrying the cipher;
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in the way that the encoded text was to be pricked from the back side with a needle at certain letters.
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The letters had to be filtered out by holding the paper into the light and then it was decoded.
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