European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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due to the massive losses at the eastern front.
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They needed human material now.
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There may have been a decree of the ‘Fuehrer’– so we were called up.
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Erwin, a collegue also working in my company,
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built climbing irons. He was a toolmaker and able to do things like that.
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I organized a rope, and we made this trip.
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It was a great experience; many had again and again said:
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Erwin, go ahead, do that when the war has ended. I said: What one has, one has.
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I wouldn't have had another possibility to make such a mountain trip on the Großglockner mountain.
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But I don't want to go on talking of this mountain trip...
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But the conscription ...
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We had to report, somewhere here in Kreuzberg.
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Another man and I were deferred.
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We got the order to take the train to Heuberg the next day or the day after.
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We just were two overdue ones, spare ones, who went there on that day.
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I got to know Otto Linke’s wife then, as well.
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Before he had been in the SAP (socialistic labour party), and so we quickly got in contact with each other.
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So we went to Heuberg, that training camp in Wuerttemberg.
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Something else that you can never really forget:
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In the crew shack was also a bible student.
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