European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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But if something like that keeps happening frequently,
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it is not only a question of calming your conscience: I was against it; I have done something about it.
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On the other side you could show:
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“You cannot do what you want. We are here and we are keeping an eye on you!”
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Acts of sabotage
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We worked in groups of three,
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