European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The soldier said: Yeah, yeah, yeah… and what will you do without any money?
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I explained that we record our dues in a booklet and that we pay the balance at the end of the year.
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He was suspicious of me. He couldn’t figure out how to get me caught.
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After flipping through my papers he finally whips out a photograph of my first love, Elvira from Stanjel.
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‘Forever yours Elvira’ was written on the back. He knew a little Slovene and said to me:
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Translate this for me. I did what I had to. Because of his little knowledge of Slovene, he then feeling victorious, snorted:
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Now I’ve got you. So this is a theological seminary? And you’re a priest?!
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I hung my head and said: What can I say, youth is youth.
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I was repentant, as if to say I’d disobeyed the rules of the seminary.
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He watched me and then said: That’s quite a tall story you’ve told, huh?
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I looked him straight in the eyes and said to him:
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Is it that difficult to discern when someone is telling a lie or the truth?
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I was looking straight at him, but I was dripping sweat from fear and horror. He told me to go.
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I probably never could have pulled off a trick like that without the four years of high school.
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I was at least a little above the level they were used to meeting in a regular fighter.
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A peasant boy would only look on in horror once he was caught.
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Once I discovered the effectiveness of the rosary, I was more than happy to continue carrying it.
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I related this story two times after that and it always worked.
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…Those were the little guys; they were still learning how to read.
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I had a hidden bunker in school.
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