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and my three brothers all had to get up, as well.

They all had to sit down behind the table.

I was put towards the door so I could not look at the others.

Then we were interrogated.

One after the other, the mother first...

I was interrogated last.

Unfortunately they had found something and I had to confess…

Because otherwise the family…

I had to confess and then it was decided that they would march me off early in the morning.

In the morning I asked one of the guards:

“Well, what shall I put on?”

He said: “You won’t have warm feet for long anyway. You won’t need anything.”

At 6 am in the morning we left home.

The whole village looked green because of all these soldiers and field police.

Most of them were field police.

We went up to where the constabulary was, at the next inn.

There they showed me a map of Ludmannsdorf

and I could see that everything was put on record;

all the houses that we had had connections,

just everything. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I couldn’t work out, why.