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The partisans have to be buried, everything cleaned.
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In two hours time a patrol will come and there mustn’t be anything showing.”
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And they did that.
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The farmer buried the partisans and the farmer’s wife cleaned up, wiped the blood up.
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It was hard for her to mop all that and she cried hard, kneeling in the blood.
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My cousin and I were totally shattered.
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The farmer’s wife said: “You stay indoors and don’t go outside.
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Don’t you tell anybody what happened.” We didn’t.
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If somebody told us to keep something to ourselves, we did.
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We protected the partisans so much when we were kids;
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they were our friends
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and the Germans were our enemies.
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Back to Carinthia
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We went back over the mountain to Carinthia, when the snow was gone.
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We got to a farmer’s where the cousin’s grandmother was.
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The aunt asked the grandmother whether she could leave the youngest daughter there,
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because she was very ill.
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This woman said she could. The girl would die otherwise.
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I thought: ‘Oh, she can stay and I have to go again; and it is so nice and warm here.’
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We were so full and it was wonderful.
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