European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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There was always a corporal walking along with us (with 3 or 5 men)
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who had to make sure that no one started to talk to other people.
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But, in Belgium – as we were not the first ones there –
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they knew that in this punishment battalion 999 there were many political prisoners.
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That was known.
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After that we went to France and to Italy, as well.
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Military service, murder of a bible scholar
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I had already been mustered in Aschendorfer Moor.
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There we got an army exclusion certificate; we were unworthy for the army.
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Convicts and political prisoners were all unworthy for the army.
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In 1941/42 we were mustered again,
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due to the massive losses at the eastern front.
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They needed human material now.
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There may have been a decree of the ‘Fuehrer’– so we were called up.
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Erwin, a collegue also working in my company,
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built climbing irons. He was a toolmaker and able to do things like that.
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I organized a rope, and we made this trip.
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It was a great experience; many had again and again said:
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Erwin, go ahead, do that when the war has ended. I said: What one has, one has.
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I wouldn't have had another possibility to make such a mountain trip on the Großglockner mountain.
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