European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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This is how I got home from war captivity.
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My parents lived somewhere else, as they had been bombed out.
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And now the new life began after all these incidents that you experienced over the years.
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Italy, Tunesia, capture
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We got to Naples.
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There was a ship, which had been declared as a hospital ship (with a red cross on it) –
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that had been transporting ammunition.
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The Italian members of the resistance found out about it and the ship was bombarded.
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And we had to take the wounded into hospital.
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Often ships were declared as hospital ships but transported ammunition.
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From Naples we were flown to Tunisia in a Ju52.
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It flew close to sea level – it never went higher.
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A few machines of that group were brought down.
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They all died a wretched death drowning in the Mediterranean Sea.
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There was no way of rescuing them.
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When we came to Tunisia they said at the airport: “What do you want here?”
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Many people or many soldiers were heading back.
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Higher units – Rommel and these were here, too.
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That was in March. Around the beginning of April – the Rommel-army had pulled back quite a bit –
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arouse this mood between us, too.
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