European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Are you from the CY, the communistic youth, the socialist youth or the ’Bündische Jugend’?”
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The question was: „What can you do against fascism?“
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Because we followed the example of France,
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the calling up of German intellectuals from Paris,
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all dividing differences on the left had to be put aside,
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to concentrate the strength against the fascist attack,
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which was going on everywhere at that time.
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“We were warned”
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These preparations that we were able to make
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before German fascism marched into the German areas of Czechoslovakia,
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they had become relevant after German fascism got rid of the Austrian cleric-fascism in 1934
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and replaced it by the Nazi regime and then proclaimed the ‘Großdeutsches Reich’ (Greater German Reich).
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That took place on the 12th and 13th March 1938.
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Ever since then we knew that the next victim would be Czechoslovakia,
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the last democratic stronghold in central Europe.
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That meant we had enough room to prepare ourselves for the illegal work,
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the anti-fascist fight from March 1938 until the Munich Agreement on 29th September 1938.
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That made the difference between the anti-fascist fight in the German areas of Czechoslovakia,
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which are now called ‘Sudetenland’,
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