European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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and there the Monte Rosa division is waiting for you”.
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We could only imagine what the Monte Rosa was,
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but this is what we would tell them:
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“Let’s not sign anything. On the Russian front we’re too weak, we’re outnumbered, and that’s exactly where we’ll end up!”.
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So nobody signed.
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The “Lagerfuhrer”, the boss of all bosses,
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was so furious one day that we were sanctioned to
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– I will tell you this in German –
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“Diese Leute morgen früh kein Brot”: no bread for three days.
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The cold and the work
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When we arrived there, the French asked us:
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“Since you come from the outside, what do people say? How long will the war last?”.
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We always thought we knew everything, and we told them it would only last one or two more months,
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but they replied it would go on for another two years. They were right, the war went on for two more years.
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There were women who had to work on the railroad with shovels and pickaxes.
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Sometimes they were even pregnant, and trust me, that’s hard work.
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They didn’t do a headcount at night,
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to see who was back and who wasn’t, they didn’t care if ten of us had died during the day.
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Similarly, they did not expect us to work too hard, but we had to be at work every day.
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In my camp, after we woke up at five,
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