European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Then the old comrades came and said that Hitler was standing in front of the door
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with armed arguments, and you do not intend to defend yourself.
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There was a giant discussion in the youth association and we decided to do military training.
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We learned to shoot and we learned a new martial art. The Nazis did not even know the name of it.
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At that time it was the latest achievement: Jiu-Jitsu, training blows with the edge of your hand.
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With that we were able to prevail against the majority of the Nazis.
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If one of our youth centres was closed in by Nazi rowdies,
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how were we supposed to liberate the group in the youth centre?
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With defensive methods? That would not do.
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We had to attack and once their blows were overcome
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then the others would lose ground
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and we were able to get our people out of the youth centre.
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That happened from time to time,
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the adult’s organisation of the social democrats, the socialists, “Rote Wehr”, later on “Republikanische Wehr” was strictly defensive.
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That was good when a public house was to be defended against the attack of the Nazis.
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That was good at demonstrations, where the ‘Rote Wehr’ was walking at the front and at the back,
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but if a location in a small village was encircled by the Nazis,
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some of our people were already inside and some still wanted to get in to the event and couldn’t,
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well, then our pioneer fraction was called.
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Fascism in childhood and youth
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