European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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I already had connection to the partisans.
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In August I received the call-up to the army.
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I said: “What shall we do?”
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They wanted me to enlist but my mother was against it. Mother was frightened:
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“They will destroy everything and burn our house down” and cried.
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But I thought that the families would not have to pay so much.
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So I enlisted in Klagenfurt. From above we might get a contact.
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When I was in Klagenfurt, you know how it is with the military – today like this, tomorrow like that.
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From Klagenfurt to Salzburg; from Salzburg to Lienz, East Tyrol.
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Then to Italy via Venice, Rome up to … near Monte Cassino.
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Then we were sent to the front.
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There I was wounded, had a first and second-degree frostbite
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and because of that I got into the military hospital in South Italy, in Sora.
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From there to Venice, then to Merano.
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Then back to Germany, Black Forest, Solingen – there was a hospital.
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Afterwards I always thought:
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Well, I have to get out.
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I made an application to be moved to the military hospital in Klagenfurt.
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