European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The first deserters from the ‘Wehrmacht’ had already escaped to Yugoslavia in 1939.
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After the occupation of Yugoslavia they were arrested or had gone into hiding under a false name;
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as my colleague Karl Potoschki did.
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He was working under false name at a hotel in Bosnia.
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On the 20th October 1939, he was shot together with 20.000 ‘chosen ones’ and finished off.
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Those coming back after the occupation of Yugoslavia were mostly locked up,
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respectively were the cadres of the liberation front of the Slovenes of Carinthia.
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Some joined the partisans straight away; others later on, but the beginning had been made.
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From day to day the resistance grew stronger.
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Today, when you realise how courageous the people were –
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then again it involved the ‘head’ and the people didn’t have a clue.
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The plain people were the ones that helped the rebellion.
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Without the help of the rural population, resistance would have been impossible.
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Only because of this it was possible that the number of partisans became bigger each day.
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And the hope that one day things would change.
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Life after war
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My family was fortunate.
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I made it back home, my father and Avvenire came back from Germany, Davide was in the mountains too:
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he was one of the leaders and later became deputy police prefect here.
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We were all alive, all nine of us and our parents.
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