European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The one side of my face is paralysed because of this injury.
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I was not fit for war any more and was retrained as a radio operator.
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In spite of all my bad luck, this was the best that could happen.
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Radio operators were not only privileged.
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Due to their occupation they were able to listen to what BBC or the station ‘Freies Deutschland’ were broadcasting.
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Every radio operator did that, regardless whether he was a Nazi or an anti-fascist.
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When searching for your remote station you had to contact. If you came across any other station you listened into that.
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But that wasn’t the only thing a clever radio operator could do. He could also get in touch with another radio station where a comrade sat.
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My big advantage was that I gave and received the highest speed, that is to say 140 characters per minute, which was the police radio.
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The highest speed that was generally used in the ‘Wehrmacht’ was 120 characters, giving and receiving.
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Because I gave 140, I was of interest to the generals.
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They knew, the police radio was not intercepted by the ‘Gestapo’ and the ‘SS’.
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The generals, who did not agree with Hitler, also wanted to correspond with each other.
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For that they needed people who gave 140 characters - and I was one.
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Insofar I got to the highest post and had contact to generals, who were anything but anti-fascists.
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But they were objectors to Hitler for many reasons.
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As a radio operator I was able to do a lot more illegally than before.
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Soldier in Africa
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I was sent to Africa. I had to fight in a motorbike patrol.
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We agreed before we became soldiers
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