European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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When I came back outside, the bicycle was gone. Someone else had stolen it.
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Easy come, easy go.
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Of course I had a message. Mali, you must report to general headquarters in Belgrade.
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I traveled on to Belgrade; it must have been 10 or 12 days. Sometimes I was on a train, sometimes I traveled by foot.
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The routes were in ruins. I came to Belgrade; I think it was already the end of May.
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I reported to general headquarters in Belgrade and I spent some time there, a week or two, or even a month.
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Then I was sent to the headquarters of the 1st regiment in Nis.
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I arrived there and was in the 'personnel department'.
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My job was to question those who joined the Partisans and became noncommissioned officers.
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I had to ask them where they had been, I had to thoroughly interrogate them and find out what kind of past they had.
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So that’s how it came to be that I was in the 1st regiment up until November 1945.
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Short visit at mothers home
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When I arrived I went and found my mother. Then this man had to bring us across because the bridge was down.
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It had been burned. He brought us across and my mother and I, me with my stolen bicycle and she with hers,
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headed up through the Zadrecka valley. It’s about eight kilometers uphill.
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Then the Partisans stopped me
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and claimed that I was a German soldier dressed as a Partisan, who wants to stay in a liberated Yugosalvia.
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I said listen, listen …
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But they pulled out a revolver and aimed at me. My mother began to cry. They would have shot me if it hadn’t been for her.
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They claimed that I had killed a Partisan, dressed in the Partisan uniform and thrown away the German one. It wasn’t true.
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