European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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we agreed that we not only want to keep in touch,
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but we wanted to develop a secure code in which we were able to correspond politically.
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It was a cipher which the Gestapo was not able to figure out until the end:
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A very shifty system, the so called „two-box-system“.
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When a cipher was found, you only needed to press out the sender and the addressee to find out more.
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That was why the code had to be masked again – that was my idea.
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We then arranged that we would use the Goebbel’s weekly article,
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that he used to write either in the ’Völkischer Beobachter’ or in the ’Reich’, as a disguise.
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We then underlined in red and in the accompanying letter we wrote
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this sentence of Goebbels is important, you need to discuss this sentence.
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The only function was to distract, because this article was carrying the cipher;
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in the way that the encoded text was to be pricked from the back side with a needle at certain letters.
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The letters had to be filtered out by holding the paper into the light and then it was decoded.
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It was not noticeable that we were communicating in cipher.
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When the war began, another important thing happened.
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With the attack on Poland,
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the ‘Wehrmacht’ and the German air force were looking for ’Blitzmädchen’ (female military Helpers during World War II),
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which were able to help as radio operators in the occupied areas.
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Eight of our female comrades volunteered.
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They had to be let in on our cipher, which only the hard core had known.
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