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It was all the easier in the Primorje region, in the Karst especially.
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Anywhere you came, someone immediately gave their cow to slaughter so the entire brigade could feast on goulash.
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When I traveled as a courier, I was always fed.
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If I was wet I was dried no matter what house I stepped into.
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Despite that you were alone, everywhere and anywhere you always had the feeling that you belonged together.
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There was never any danger that you might take the wrong turn into the wrong house.
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Everyone was inclined to the Partisans.
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This relieved us of the fears that took rise elsewhere throughout Slovenia,
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where one had to consider the potential betrayal of the locals.
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That is, elsewhere, the Home Guard and their informants were lurking. There was none of that in the Primorje area.
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I never came across a single Slovenian enemy, dead or alive.
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So I realize I have a somewhat idealized conception.
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Nonetheless, it was genuine, the idealization that a war could unfold such a beautiful humanity,
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if I may say so, because war is far from beautiful.
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It is true though that as a poet it was hard for me to choose death, even the enemy’s.
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This is also why I selected tasks which were far more hazardous than being in the brigade.
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However, it was less imperative in the tasks I chose to have to kill someone standing before me, even the enemy.
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I have always tried to live my life with as little death as possible, even with regard to the Germans.
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Killing, even in the name of great ideals, will ultimately come back to you later in form of a trauma.
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The prayer book anecdote; teacher in the partisan school
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