European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The evening came.
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No partisan called up, but the commander had told me I would be gone in the evening.
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I went back to Bleiburg and picked up my military equipment.
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On the next day I met the commander of the partisans and said to him:
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“Why didn’t you come?”
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He said to me:
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“You know by yourself where you belong.”
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That was easily said in those days.
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But it was not an easy thing to do.
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But the English bombarded Klagenfurt in those days.
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When the police came afterwards to ask if I had reported somewhere, my mother said:
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“Maybe he has been killed in the air raid.”
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My Mother was clever. There was an illegal co-worker of the partisans in Bleiburg.
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After 2 to 3 weeks, my mother gave one of them a parcel to take it to this woman.
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Later this woman took the parcel to the post with my military address on it,
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the one I should have reported to after my holiday.
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The parcel came back again…
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The parcels kept going backwards and forwards.
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Conscription to the Wehrmacht, injury
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In March 43 I had to go to the army physician because I had to enlist.
 
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