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in a concentration camp or locked up by Nazi fascists.

For all those it is unforgettable.

We cannot understand that the people care so little about this day, 8th May – the end of the war.

We were happy, but it just looks as if it was the other way round.

They lost the war and that’s why they never celebrate.

Later on they made the 26th October a national hiking day or so.

What do they hike for?

Nobody thinks about that. What happened and what was achieved by that – peace.

We are always for it; every day.

Never again: war and fascism.

Women in the resistance

The women were really poor.

Because they really had to pay for this, more than the others.

But they were really brave women.

Some were braver than the men.

Three of those women I took into my heart and will never forget.

They had no fears.

If there was any returned shooting they shot just the same as the others.

But some were placid.

They had nothing to laugh about, because of their “monthly problems”.