European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

That was good when a public house was to be defended against the attack of the Nazis.

That was good at demonstrations, where the ‘Rote Wehr’ was walking at the front and at the back,

but if a location in a small village was encircled by the Nazis,

some of our people were already inside and some still wanted to get in to the event and couldn’t,

well, then our pioneer fraction was called.

Fascism in childhood and youth

Fascism was a subject,

because of the experiences that we picked up from the immigrants.

In our youth group we invited immigrants from Austria and Germany to tell their story.

We already knew before the high finance and the generals

pushed the power towards the Nazi leading clique:

Hitler means war.

We not only grew into the anti-fascist fight,

but as well into the fight for peace. It was the same question to us:

the anti-fascist fight and the fight for peace.

That obviously assumed that we threw light on it.

After my youth consecration, when I left school, I took part in my first Marxist seminar.

There, young people who were interested,

learned all the basics if they wanted to become a functionary of the labour movement.

So they were not only practical experiences that were being reflected,