European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The connection worked in no time.
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It did not take six weeks any more, but took fourteen days or three weeks
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until the message moved back and forth – coded, of course.
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Resistance in the German Wehrmacht
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After the ‘Munich Agreement’ we had the 36 divisions, which marched into Czechoslovakia from all sides.
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Bohemia and Moravia were encircled by ’Großdeutschland’.
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At the beginning you worked as a civilian
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and only when in 1939 the war began, the enlistments started.
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I was not enlisted until the end of 1940, so that we had two years of time for the illegal work.
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Only when we had to enlist, where the alternative would have been going to a concentration camp,
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the work in the ‘Wehrmacht’ started and the attempt to form anti-fascist cells.
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Like many others of us, I was enlisted to the ‘Wehrmacht’ after doing illegal work for nearly two years.
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We discussed what we were going to do; either refuse to accept the enlisting order,
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meaning torture and concentration camp or agree that we have more opportunities as soldiers.
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That was our collective decision.
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Being a recruit, I was in Bayreuth and there was an illegal group.
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A commercial traveller, an anti-fascist who commuted between the borders,
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associated me with the anti-fascist group there.
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For them I was a stranger, they wanted proof:
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How reliable is this man and what can he do?
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