European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Up to this time in Czechoslovakia the focus of the German, as well as the Czechoslovakian labour parties,
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was on the class struggle, which meant the fight for better material and cultural living conditions.
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In 1933 this obviously didn’t stop, but the more the Nazis,
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the Hitler supporters in the German areas of Czechoslovakia developed,
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the more it amounted to a new political front status.
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On one side, supporters of Hitler in the German areas of Czechoslovakia, who increasingly became more aggressive
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and on the other side the German and Czech antifascists.
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So it was not really the way it is now being claimed quite often,
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that the Germans and the Czechs were one against the other.
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A nationalistic perspective is a belated attempt to distract from the real problems we had at that time.
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Post-war times, memorial policies, “traitors”
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The main Nazis, they hid away.
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Back then, when the partisans were there.
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Some of them came back out of their holes the end of May
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and for a while they were like the Stasi (secret police of East Germany).
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Again, as time went on they showed themselves as Nazis.
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They believed us to be the betrayers.
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Even today the word ‘betrayer’ or ‘betrayer of freedom’ sticks to us.
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How can an Austrian or authority say ‘betrayer’?
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In those days when the roll call came: “Let’s go against fascism, for Austria” – where were the people?
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