European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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If we had shot, we would have been bombarded – we wouldn’t have survived.
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So we placed the grenade launcher there, moved along for another 20m and then one said:
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“We will build something, so we can protect ourselves from the direct bombardment a little bit.”
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We fired one shot and, in return, our grenade launcher was totally destroyed.
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It was a kamikaze mission. They wanted to exterminate us.
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Later on we went back and then I spoke to some of the others:
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“We have to run away now.”
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