European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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When I was in Eger on holiday or because I needed my glass eye I used to say to the battalion’s doctor:
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“Well, in Warsaw they are not able to make decent glass eyes.
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In Wiesbaden they make the best glass eyes.
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Then I got marching orders from near the front or from Russia or Poland to Wiesbaden
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and then I took a detour past Eger. And i told to one or two:
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“During this time I will be available in Eger. Can’t you come there, as well?”
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We then met female comrades who were in Norway or Copenhagen.
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It was very hard to co-ordinate such a holiday,
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but it was obviously an exchange of experience that was thorough,
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because you had to confine yourself to communicating in telegram styles during radio or coded correspondence.
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And now you were able to analyse together: What has happened and what needs to be done?
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These meetings took place, but it was really a thing that was quite free of emotions.
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Injuries and being a radio operator
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It was a bagatelle that brought me in front of the court martial in Africa.
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If they had known what I really did, I would have been summarily executed.
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As it was, I was taken to the court martial and condemned to the punishment battalion in Africa.
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That was horrible because you were totally isolated
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and because you were often sent out in front of the tanks – as cannon catch.
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Near the Highfalla Pass, near Tobruk.
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I was seriously wounded after six weeks in the punishment battalion.
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