European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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It’s not the fear of the gun,
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it’s realizing that you’re absolutely nothing to them.
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These men in uniform, who looked like cockroaches,
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who spoke a language you didn’t know because they weren’t even from your own country,
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not only could keep you from going inside your home, but also had the power to kill you.
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You were nothing to them; you were less than a bug.
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It’s shocking.
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Maybe we weren’t prepared for this,
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but it was the reaction of a young girl who by then had already suffered from bombings,
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from seeing soldiers being captured.
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The older men, who had fought in the First World War, were talking about concentration camps.
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My father used to tell us that we had to feed my brother otherwise these beasts would let him die of hunger.
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We had to help them.
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You suffer terribly from these things you’re facing.
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In the end they are just like you.
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You don’t know what their future will be, you risk your own life to help them.
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We went on the street as we saw a soldier and we escorted him out of danger,
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since there were road blocks everywhere.
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Our old men even carried them on the crossbar of their bicycles for a while,
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so that they could rest a little and stay out of trouble.
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