European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Being 18, I strained to be a great informer, like all those characters I’d read about, Sherlock Holmes for instance,
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and I dreamed of all the miracles I would do. I did do a few bold things, even stupid, but at least they worked.
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For instance, if I could, I slept in a bed. I’d arrive in a village and they would offer me a bed. I would risk it.
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The Germans would come at night and that was a problem: how and where to hide.
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I always had a mini-bunker somewhere to hide in. I acted completely against all rules, rather according to my instincts.
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Once I was in my home village and Germans came suddenly at night.
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Luckily it was very dark and they were roaming about with torches.
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I was on the verge of coming home to my house and what was I to do?
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They were going to inspect the houses. I got an idea.
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I thought it wisest to follow the patrol to see where they were going. So I followed them, only meters behind, through the entire village.
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I was careful of how I walked as not to be too loud. It was utterly dark but I didn’t need a torch.
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I could move around independently or in small units, arranging ahead what we would do. I was also a courier.
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We would always travel in pairs.
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I wasn’t entirely aware of how dangerous it was. That was a great advantage to me.
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To the same time it increased the danger factor, but things worked out. Many men, who were just as foolish as I, fell.
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I am left with an almost romantic regard of combat, as if it was a romantic period. Which of course it wasn’t; far from it.
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At the same time we were also falling in love. I was prepared to walk all night just to see my beloved from afar.
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In short, we lived intensively under the conditions of war. We had to be careful.
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There would be a meeting and we would dance and go wild, then we would fight the very next day.
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This became the norm of our lives, we learned to count on it.
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