European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Me, for example, and there are not many who achieved something like that,
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I had connection to my party leader exiled in London from 1941 until 1945.
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Coded mail went to Bergen in Norway.
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There sat a comrade of ours as a ’Blitzmädchen’, she had connection to the partisans.
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They took the mail to Sweden.
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In Stockholm was the secretary general of my party
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and he established the connection from Stockholm to London via plane.
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Until the enquiry came back:
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“How is the mood in the population?
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Where are places for paratroopers to jump
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where to the same time a social background can be found, so they can live and operate safely?”
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These sorts of questions came and they were answered.
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Later on it worked even faster, because a comrade,
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who had emigrated to London with her parents, got a new identity
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and was infiltrated into Denmark where she got married to a Danish member of the resistance.
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She applied at the German commandant’s office and nobody knew that she spoke Jewish.
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She also spoke German, French, English and then she even learned Danish
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and after that applied at the German commandant’s office.
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Because she was perfect in type writing and shorthand she was taken on immediately.
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Because of her capability and her linguistic knowledge it did not take long
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