European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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One thing that just belongs to this time: 1923, the inflation.
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My sister used to stand in front of the baker’s shop, me at the butcher’s
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and we used to wait until my father came back from work and he had a backpack full of money.
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Then he used to give us bundles of it and with them we paid for the bread or a 250 g of sausage or a 500 g of meat.
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The money was worthless the next day.
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During this time many sank into poverty.
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A lot of people had paid war bonds
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and they became invalid – were not worth anything.
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So, whoever had no material goods, lost everything.
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1927 I left school.
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Then I tried for an apprenticeship.
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I didn’t get one, although I had good school reports.
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It was in this time, as well,
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that the grammar school pupils were older.
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There is a difference between the strength of a fourteen year old boy or a seventeen/eighteen year old young man.
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I wanted to become a type setter.
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My uncle sought for a place – rejected.
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Then another uncle said: “Well, then you become a bricklayer” – as well, no success.
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My father was a metal worker – again, nothing.
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And then I started at the company ‘Jonas’ as an adolescent employee.
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