European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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It meant very much to the working class movement in France. It was important.
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Reasons for resistance
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I would have been disloyal to my own convictions, if I hadn’t joined the resistance.
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My grandfather was jailed in the KUK Empire,
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Emperor Royal Monarchy of the Habsburgs, because he fought for socialism.
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My father was jailed because he fought for socialism.
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It was obvious, that I would work in the same track,
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therefore would not passively let it wash over me, but work against it.
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I was not alone and we had learned not just to back off when the enemy attacked, but to think about where to start a counter-attack.
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If you were sure about being needed in the time after Hitler, to that time this was an important sentence: “…for the time after Hitler.”
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So you would work illegally but do not take unnecessary risks.
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It was obvious that you would deliberately throw a spanner in the works,
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as long as you could and as long as you could breathe.
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It was the same with many others.
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End of war
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Towards the end of the war I was seriously wounded another time.
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I was buried by a British aircraft-bomb for a short time and then unconscious for two days.
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The 8th May I witnessed in an auxiliary military hospital in British captivity.
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Only few who were pleased like me. Some just did not care.
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Some, mostly young officers that were in the military hospital with me, were set really hostile towards the change.
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