European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

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.

Then we drove away

and went out to Bach where I saw that they had a military lorry.

In it were all the others that had been arrested with me.

We were 18 persons.

From there we were taken to the Gestapo in the court house in Klagenfurt.

The Gestapo had occupied the first and second floor.

Most of the people on the second floor were either waiting for their hearing

or the ones that were to be taken to the camps later on.

There we were until Christmas.

On the 26th December we were transferred to …

On the ground floor was the court and there we waited again.