European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Afterwards we had to help them every day.
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Into the forest, delivering food. In the evenings they came again.
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That was the way the resistance was organised and kept getting stronger.
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Anschluss, persecution, propaganda for resistance
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The father, Wasilij, was still young.
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He kept saying of National Socialism: “That will be no good.”
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Afterwards, the authority was taken over by the Nazis,
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they immediately locked up a number of people of the Slovenian minority
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and priests. We saw it would not be the way it had been promised before.
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It was a time without work and bread.
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That helped the national socialists to come into power.
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And many let themselves be led by the propaganda
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and even believed that everything would be okay again.
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That the people would live well – under Adolf Hitler.
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But when the first Slovenians were locked up, we already knew my father was right.
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The people lost their belief in Adolf Hitler
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and the resistance formed against fascism and Hitlerism.
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The first deserters from the ‘Wehrmacht’ had already escaped to Yugoslavia in 1939.
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After the occupation of Yugoslavia they were arrested or had gone into hiding under a false name;
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as my colleague Karl Potoschki did.
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