European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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There he wanted to get out of the door.
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He was wounded.
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A bullet went through my apron but didn’t hit me.
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I hid myself in a hole under the stove.
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The Gestapo, or policeman, came in and stuck his machinegun into the hole.
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But he looked in and saw that there was only a child and pulled me out.
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I was not frightened any more, feeling nothing.
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I was in shock.
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Then I had to step over these partisans. He made me step over the dead people!
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One of them was not dead, yet.
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He begged to be shot again and was looking at us pleadingly.
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I had to step right over their heads.
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I still remember these eyes.
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Whenever I see blue eyes like these somewhere, I remember this man.
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I do have a problem with that; I cannot forget that.
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Then they took me inside to the two old farmers and my cousin.
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One of them just wanted to shoot us and burn the house down.
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Another one said: “You shouldn’t do that.
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The partisans have to be buried, everything cleaned.
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In two hours time a patrol will come and there mustn’t be anything showing.”
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