European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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I was unconscious for two days and then came to Athens and there my eye had to be removed.
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The one side of my face is paralysed because of this injury.
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I was not fit for war any more and was retrained as a radio operator.
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In spite of all my bad luck, this was the best that could happen.
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Radio operators were not only privileged.
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Due to their occupation they were able to listen to what BBC or the station ‘Freies Deutschland’ were broadcasting.
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Every radio operator did that, regardless whether he was a Nazi or an anti-fascist.
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When searching for your remote station you had to contact. If you came across any other station you listened into that.
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