European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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this sentence of Goebbels is important, you need to discuss this sentence.
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The only function was to distract, because this article was carrying the cipher;
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in the way that the encoded text was to be pricked from the back side with a needle at certain letters.
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The letters had to be filtered out by holding the paper into the light and then it was decoded.
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It was not noticeable that we were communicating in cipher.
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When the war began, another important thing happened.
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With the attack on Poland,
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the ‘Wehrmacht’ and the German air force were looking for ’Blitzmädchen’ (female military Helpers during World War II),
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which were able to help as radio operators in the occupied areas.
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Eight of our female comrades volunteered.
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They had to be let in on our cipher, which only the hard core had known.
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We had to keep up the contact, and they had to, wherever they were, get in touch with the local partisans.
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After having been badly wounded, I was retrained as a radio operator in the punishment battalion in Africa.
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Of course this was a second option to communicate quickly.
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Every radio operator had the opportunity to communicate via radio as long as there was another radio operator somewhere else.
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You only had to be careful, because the ‘Gestapo’ and the ‘SS’ intercepted everything.
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But it worked, you could communicate via radio, as well.
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Me, for example, and there are not many who achieved something like that,
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I had connection to my party leader exiled in London from 1941 until 1945.
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Coded mail went to Bergen in Norway.
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