European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I get out and I see the pile of our arms lying there, because these Vlasov guys told us to leave it there.
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This pile lying there and my friends standing in a row
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and the Vlasov guys tying their hands at the backs.
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When I saw it, I hid my head and backed under this juniper thicket or something,
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a low growing one and got underneath, kneeling.
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My sten with a missing cartridge was between my legs,
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I leant on my elbows and just waited for things to quiet down.
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These Vlasov soldiers tied my friends and you could hear them yelling.
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As they moved on, they plucked up their courage yelling: Hurrah! Hurrah! Besides, they all were totally drunk.
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All. If anyone of them died we used to check what weapons they had and they always had their canteens filled with hard liquor.
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So I heard these voices moving away and it got pitch dark.
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Suddenly somebody started whistling ‘Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła’ [Polish anthem].
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After some time I whistled back.
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Then he says: ‘How many of you?’ I said ‘Just me.’
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‘There are four of us’.
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So there were four more smart guys like me who hid in the thickets.
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Somebody had matches just to check whether we knew each other or not.
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The ‘Szary unit had around 500 people.
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So it was hard to know everyone.
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For the most part these were boys from the Vilnius region.
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