European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I don’t know if later they ate that food or not.
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They chased me three or four kilometers away.
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But even before I was taken prisoner, the watch was taken off my hand.
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I remember thinking how it made no difference.
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When they caught me, they took me to the village called Balakleja and they locked me up in a hen coop.
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Perhaps it was two by two meters, or one by one.
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I just know that I was locked up for an eternity, at least it seemed that way.
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I don’t know whether it was afternoon or the next day, but two soldiers came in and asked me if I’m German or not.
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No, I’m not, I’m Yugoslavian.
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They knew nothing of any Yugoslavians.
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They tied me up with some wire and shoved me to some headquarters.
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There was a huge table in a very large room, and the officers were sitting over there.
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I don’t know what kind of officers they were. They asked me all sorts of things.
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Perhaps I’d been thinking about it in the hen coop, I was asked for my surname.
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I said Ivan Ivanovic Srcnikov.
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That was almost my death, although I didn’t know it.
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And then one of the officers, he says to me in Russian what’s your surname?!
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I responded Ivan Ivanovic Srcnikov. He said I’m not Yugoslavian, but rather a Vlach.
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The Vlachs were Russian soldiers who had gone over to the enemy side, or who had been taken prisoner.
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They had gone over and joined the German army.
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