European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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People were gathering and cheering about liberation, convinced that the war was over.
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So my comrades and I, we were anxious and eager to seize the day that we, too, would become fighters, before the war ended.
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It was a total illusion that with the capitulation of Italy, Germany would fall as well.
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Partisan „hero“ Janko Premrl (Vojko)
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The anti-fascist disposition was in our blood.
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Hearing the first news that some opposition had arisen somewhere -
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especially once these news came to the Slovenians in the Primorje region, which belonged to Italy –
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we all were automatically for the Partisan movement.
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Not only were we inclined to it, indeed we experienced it extremely naively.
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It was a romantic view of unconquerable Partisans,
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the same Partisans who suddenly show up first here and then there, un-capturable!
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The first Partisans were in our eyes according to our hopes and aspirations. They did not conform to reality.
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Already in 1942 there were posters hung all over the Primorje region,
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warrants for the arrest of a renowned Partisan of the time, Janko Premrl – Vojko.
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Later he fell in action and was designated a national hero.
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A financial reward was offered to anyone who would turn him over, dead or alive, to the Italian military authorities.
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Despite the large sum posed, especially for the conditions at the time,
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no-one was tempted to betrayal or the mediation of information,
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which might bring about the arrest or the mere identification of his whereabouts or doings.
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Vojko, that is, Janko Premrl became a legendary hero in our eyes.
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