European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Why bother with the couch?’
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Surrounded by German troops, escape
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They attacked us there.
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I was very ill at the time, because I had been marching for a long time
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and I had some grazes on the leg.
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The legs, always in long boots, were eaten by lice.
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This was the time when you could take your boots off, taking time to scratch your feet stung by lice.
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It resulted in festering wounds and infections. I had high fever, I couldn’t walk.
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The commander took out the maps and tried to figure out how to get away.
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He spread these maps and I saw how calm he was.
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After all, the cannonade around meant we were going to fight.
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And he was just lying there calm, on this blanket looking at the maps.
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Apparently trying to get us all away from this trap the best way.
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We had this cadet on horseback.
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We asked him to ride to the left, to the right of the forest to find the best getaway out of the forest.
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He tried a couple of times in various directions and each time he came back saying we were surrounded and there was no way out.
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All of a sudden one man says: ‘Guys, let’s think, we need to do something. What?’
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I said: ‘What the heck, let’s just stay here, we won’t sell ourselves cheap. That’s it.’ It’s the end anyway...'
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Well, but people try to save themselves to the very end. And there were thorn bushes.
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There was no chance to get inside.
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