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and you could see that he had bled to death. He had covered himself with leaves… It was a terrible tragedy.

Killing people; spies; arresting a German soldier

Well, did I kill somebody…

We did shoot, but then knowing if we killed them for sure is another story.

That night, three Germans were shot dead.

They were buried in the colony of Busana.

I can tell you that if I had killed a man while he was looking at me,

I would be sorry even now,

as killing somebody is never a nice thing.

However, I’ve always thought that when somebody deserves it, when someone has done some bad deeds...

Personally, I’m against torture, even if it’s necessary to obtain information.

But when someone has done some bad deeds, well, we must get rid of him.

As for spies, I never really thought anything.

I simply thought that they had to be spotted and killed.

It was also important to set apart those in good faith from those who were not.

If this woman took some money from the Germans to get our comrades killed,

it meant that there was really not too much good faith there.

They didn’t really have the fascist dogma, working for the regime.

If he’s a fascist to hurt people and is also paid for it, then it’s a double offence.

There was this trail heading up, which turned around a bush.