European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

The police did not control the children quite as strictly as the older people.

The little children used to carry the mail for us and so on.

And they informed us as well when somebody was wounded.

Transmission of information

The way it was organised was wonderful.

From home the news went to the neighbour; from the neighbour to somebody else and so on.

A few hours before the police came from Bleiburg

to go hunting for partisans – or bandits – as they said, we already knew.

It was agreed that a red flag on a house would indicate danger; a white flag meant everything was fine.

So we were already warned. Except of when the police came at night.

At night the news supply was not as good as during the day.

But it worked.

Lipejs tasks, provision of food supplies

First I was allocated to the couriers, the news unit for a while.

Later I was with the sabotage units. We blew up bridges and telephone masts.

Afterwards I was in a battalion with 300 men.

That was slightly different.

When a few men came,

because of the food there were no problems.

Once 200/300 people are together it was problematic with the food.