European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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But he never did show up, nor did any other Germans. The silence was deathlike.
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A quarter of an hour later the Germans withdrew from the village and all the women came running, all the mothers.
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The horror that ruled is beyond words. The mothers were sure that we had all had been massacred in the school.
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They came in to find us alive and well.
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Apparently, that German took pity on those children. Earlier that morning the Germans had killed off the wounded.
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Having to massacre the children as well would have been, presumably, too much even for him.
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So even among the enemy, wearing the SS insignia, there were some who were not brutal beasts.
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There were those who were just swept up into the current of the times and they killed merely because that’s how it was.
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Activities in the partisan movement
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At the time and place, the frame of mind was perfectly idyllic:
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the responsibility, not only as one regards one’s own behavior, but also towards one’s comrades.
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If a comrade was wounded, you would rescue him.
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Even if he fell, you would rescue his body so that the enemy wouldn’t get him and desecrate his body.
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It was a matter of honor; you would not hesitate to risk your own life.
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Once I dragged a fatally wounded comrade almost three kilometers.
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Luckily, the Germans knew that a Partisan brigade was somewhere in the vicinity,
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so they chose not to hunt me down directly but tracked me through the shooting lines.
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That time I was almost sure I would die too.
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Honor prevailed over thoughts of self survival in such moments.
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It was one year later when the army ‘lent’ me to civilian society,
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