European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

We worked in groups of three,

made agreements, always three.

We met somewhere, where we could not be overheard, to prepare missions.

Whether they were campaigns with flyers or posters

or later on, when we realised that we did not achieve enough, acts of sabotage.

Half a year after the invasion the two biggest companies in Eger,

two bicycle companies, were halfway changed into armament factories.

We thought: “Now the time is right for a big poster campaign!”

Every group put up 10 posters during the night

and apart from one exception, which was the market square opposite the SS,

all the other posters were hanging.

In the morning the people walked past these posters, on which was written:

“This is how the war is being prepared, resist early enough, before it is too late.”

But we then asked ourselves: “What did we achieve?”

We realised that we had achieved only little and decided:

”From now on we will work at a stronger pace.”

Many of us knew how to handle explosives and possessed fuses.

As my home town Eger was a railway junction

and therefore a strategically important line from Eger via Hof went to Berlin,

the other one from Karlsbad Reichenberg to Breslau,