European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We distributed leaflets in front of the factories and in different neighborhoods.
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Often we would do that at night. But at night there were also police patrols.
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So there would be two or three of us to distribute the leaflets and two or three to watch out for the police.
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We had to be very careful.
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We took many precautions: we’d hide the material to make the leaflets at someone’s place, the paper with somebody else.
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We’d try to distribute them at night, to escape from the police.
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But the police was there at night as well.
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We also handed out leaflets at the gates of the factories, even though we were quite visible there.
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We took precautions there as well. One of us would be on the look out for the police.
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We’d leave around two or three o’clock in the morning to distribute the leaflets.
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Sometimes we’d distribute them in front of the factory gates, even though that was very risky.
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It was also difficult to produce the leaflets. It was good to distribute them, but they had to be made first!
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So we tried to find friends that were not too well known and take the material there -
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the mimeograph machine, and the typewriter and hide them in the basement.
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We had to take precautions to protect these friends, but to be able to continue with our activities as well.
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We organized ourselves, trying to find places where we could secretly meet,
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where two or three of us could meet, maybe four, never more than four.
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We would meet in a basement or at friends’ not known for their political activities, but willing to help.
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They would let us in. We’d arrive at different times.
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But then there was also the need to hide the material, the mimeograph, the typewriter etc…
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