European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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That is already a difficult question in civil life, it was the same under war conditions.
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We said the fight against the fascist regime had to come before anything else;
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a very difficult ethic decision.
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Well, the question of desertion was obviously discussed between all the people who were active as anti-fascists.
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Only in Africa there was no front which’s lines could have been passed.
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In Africa warfare was mobile.
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You could only change fronts if a unit was enclosed by the English.
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Then it was possible to say: “I would like to run over”. Or to say: “I’ll run away”, then you avoided captivity.
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When I came to Poland and Russia, that did not work because,
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as a radio operator, you were too far away from the front.
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As a radio operator you are relatively far behind where the general staff sits.
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And they sit 50 to 60 km behind the front.
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Most of the time I was with the army, at the higher posts.
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We were away from the front, so it did not work there, but the opportunity had to be taken.
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I would have done so like many others if the option had occurred.
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Using codes
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In the summer of 1938, before the Nazis marched in,
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we agreed that we not only want to keep in touch,
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but we wanted to develop a secure code in which we were able to correspond politically.
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It was a cipher which the Gestapo was not able to figure out until the end:
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