European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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From there we were taken to the Gestapo in the court house in Klagenfurt.
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The Gestapo had occupied the first and second floor.
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Most of the people on the second floor were either waiting for their hearing
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or the ones that were to be taken to the camps later on.
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There we were until Christmas.
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On the 26th December we were transferred to …
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On the ground floor was the court and there we waited again.
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One or two weeks later it was the turn for the others.
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Ten of them were sentenced to death and five taken to the different camps.
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Then it should have been our turn.
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The ‘Obergerichtsrat’ (high grade judge) „Freißler“, had to go to Berlin and there he died.
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It was said that he had been shot, or killed by a bomb.
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Because of that we kept waiting until the war was over.
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Once there was a message that we would be taken to Graz.
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There they almost always shot most of the people who were delivered from Klagenfurt to Graz.
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We were lucky again:
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During the night they bombarded and destroyed the railway track and again we stayed in Klagenfurt.
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We were eventually freed on the 6th.
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Then the supervisor got us to the first floor where somebody was waiting;
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and there I got my warrant of arrest,
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