European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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For them I was a stranger, they wanted proof:
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How reliable is this man and what can he do?
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They said: “We need ammunition. Can you provide us with a box of hand grenades?
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We have explosives - but not enough - everything else is available!”
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It was a tough job,
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but during a transport I put aside a box of hand grenades at the risk of loosing my life and let them know.
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Three days later the district recruiting office in Bayreuth was blown up with the entire file.
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In the ammunition factory the most important machine was blown up and the most difficult:
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on the air field we blew up two out of three machines.
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It wasn’t me, that were the anti-fascists from Bayreuth, but I helped.
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The question was what you were able do as a soldier in an unfamiliar environment.
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We always tried to build anti-fascist cells and if it was one man or two.
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It was not easy to find out where somebody was, thinking the same as you.
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You had to proceed carefully with questions.
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Sometimes somebody told a joke and you could tell by the kind of reaction:
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is he an opponent of fascism or not.
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Wherever I went, within short time I always had an anti-fascist cell in my unit.
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It was a lot easier later, after I was badly wounded
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and we tried as a small group to do what we could.
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Like throw a spanner in the works a little bit, being aware that alone one cannot achieve a lot.
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