European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Initially I was in the company for ties, and then I was a radiotelegraph.
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It was in September or October of 1943 that we left. We went to the front.
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We didn’t go to the frontline, but we were right behind it.
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As the Soviet units marched on towards Germany,
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we cleaned up behind as the German units got dispersed in the forests and we had to clean them up.
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We crossed Romania, the Carpathian Mountains, and mostly we kept moving at night.
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To get enough sleep at night, the entire company would gather together
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and a rope would be tied to the cart and horse and then we each tied that rope around our waists,
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so we walked and slept. You would sleep while walking.
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If anybody in front of you fell down there would immediately be ten in a pile. That’s how we crossed the Carpathians.
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Then we came to Turnseverin. That was the Romanian – Yugoslavian border at the time.
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We crossed the Danube into the former Yugoslavia, or rather, occupied Yugoslavia.
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We were already liberating them at the time. We then joined in the combat at Cacak.
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Things were really bad at Cacak. Up to here the brigade counted 1000 or 2700 men.
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An extravagantly dressed man then came to Cacak, he rode a horse.
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He said his armed forces – we called them Tchetniks
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and that was also their formal name – surrendered to our soldiers.
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Because we were from all over Slovenia and from Croatia, and there weren’t any of these locals in our brigade.
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That’s basically how they saved their lives.
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There were also Partisans from Cacak and they knew these people;
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