European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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When we came to Tunisia they said at the airport: “What do you want here?”
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Many people or many soldiers were heading back.
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Higher units – Rommel and these were here, too.
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That was in March. Around the beginning of April – the Rommel-army had pulled back quite a bit –
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arouse this mood between us, too.
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Our sergeant, a confirmed Nazi, said:
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“Don’t you think it will be the way it was in 1918!
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Whoever steps out of line here, will be bumped off at once.”
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He tried to get control straight away.
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We were in some barracks in Tunis.
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There we had to guard the gates.
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The ones who had been moved for disciplinary reasons were graded for that, and so we were there, as well.
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In Kairouan the front came to a deadlock.
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We thought: ‘Well, if the Americans come further, we will hand over the barracks.
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We will be able to prevent an opposition somehow.’
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But it came to nothing.
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Afterwards we were appointed in the mountains.
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Grenade launchers lie in ambush.
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And we were positioned on a plateau, where the Americans could see and directly shoot us.
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We were on a downright kamikaze mission.
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