European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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and sleeping in the forest overnight.
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Here and there in houses as well, still, but most of the time in the forest.
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Even in the cold and snow. The clothes froze on you.
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You felt stiff as a straw mattress.
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Only those of really a tough nature were able to handle that.
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People incapable of handling this deserted.
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That didn’t help.
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Joining the partisan army
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So I went home.
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On the first evening the partisans, acquaintances were already there.
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After 14 days the holiday was over.
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“Well, what are we going to do, mother?” My mother was crying again.
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She sprinkled me with holy water.
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“Mother, that doesn’t help! I will not go back to the ones that sentenced us to death.”
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So I went and the commander of the partisans said:
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“We will come and pick you up.
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We will bring enough people so your family won’t be resettled or get locked into jail.”
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The evening came.
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No partisan called up, but the commander had told me I would be gone in the evening.
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I went back to Bleiburg and picked up my military equipment.
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