European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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There are 53 monuments and graves of the partisans in Carinthia.
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Nobody ever put a wreath down – nobody, officially.
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And there were 50.000 deserters who were shot in Germany.
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Nobody remembers them either, as if there hadn’t been any.
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Only the one who was with Hitler up to the end was the right one.
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That was quite sad, it drags on.
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According to them we were all betrayers.
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But we did not betray Austria.
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Them betrayed Austria in the year of 1938 who voted for Hitler.
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Liberation and its significance today
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I had been looking forward to the day when the war would be over.
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But unfortunately, I was wounded.
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My brother was with the partisans, as well.
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He came with a horse and took me home.
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He came into the shack.
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The horse came first and then the man. “Who is coming into the forest now?”
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Then he said: “Lipej, come on. The war is over!”
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We did not believe him that it was really true; that the war was over.
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That was unbelievable – persecution,
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respectively the hunt for the resistance fighters would be over one day.
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