European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I was at least a little above the level they were used to meeting in a regular fighter.
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A peasant boy would only look on in horror once he was caught.
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Once I discovered the effectiveness of the rosary, I was more than happy to continue carrying it.
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I related this story two times after that and it always worked.
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…Those were the little guys; they were still learning how to read.
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I had a hidden bunker in school.
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A plank that would lift up and I could hide under it.
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Some woman would run over from the village, under the pretense of being a teacher.
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All men my age were either with the Partisans or in camps.
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There was almost no one, except if the parents were so sick that someone had to take care of them.
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Suddenly this German appears at the window.
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They had come from the other side, not through the village.
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Actually the unit went through the village, all but this one German.
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I presume he had the task of checking this isolated house, which was the school.
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He leaned on the window ledge - it was spring so it was open - on his submachine gun, looking into the classroom.
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My blood froze.
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I admit it first occurred to me that this would end in tragedy: these poor children were going to be victims.
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That I myself would be seemed perfectly logical.
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The children had already witnessed the burning of their village. They all began to scream and cry like mad.
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It had always been taught that in the dangerous event of Germans coming, the plank to hide under should be lifted.
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