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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.

One or two weeks later it was the turn for the others.

Ten of them were sentenced to death and five taken to the different camps.

Then it should have been our turn.

The ‘Obergerichtsrat’ (high grade judge) „Freißler“, had to go to Berlin and there he died.

It was said that he had been shot, or killed by a bomb.

Because of that we kept waiting until the war was over.

Once there was a message that we would be taken to Graz.

There they almost always shot most of the people who were delivered from Klagenfurt to Graz.

We were lucky again: