European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

After 14 days the medical consultant of the hospital said:

“I will grant you a holiday although I know 100% that you will never come back.”

My answer was: “I will come back, where else should I go?”

I was with walking sticks, I couldn’t go anywhere.

It is just a shame that I didn’t go back to that doctor after the war.

Then I could have reported: “Mr. Consultant, I am back.”

Who supported the partisans?

Well, there were only few that weren’t with the partisans.

In the town there were more.

Bleiburg is a known town and Carinthia was a Nazi stronghold,

but the population outside was of different opinion.

There were only few and they did not report us to the police –

kept quiet and did not keep in touch with us.

But only about 10 % weren’t with us.

First contact with partisans

We had already heard in 1942 that partisans were staying in our area.

But the first contact was at Easter 1943

when the first partisans came and knocked at the door:

“Mother, open!

The partisans are here; the army of the Slovenian people.