European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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When we reached the border the Germans locked the railcars, allegedly because of the Partisans.
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In the morning – I had a small booklet with a map – it turned out we were in Austria.
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I told the others that it didn’t look good at all.
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I ended up in Neubrandenburg, 200 km to the north of Berlin.
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I was grateful that three or four years ago I was able to visit the camp I was imprisoned in sixty years before.
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We stayed there for a while, under constant air raids.
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The Germans who were in charge of the camp stayed in the first two shacks,
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then there were two shacks of female prisoners – Russian women who worked on the railroad tracks with smaller shovels –
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then the French, and finally us. I don’t know how many thousands prisoners were in the camp.
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I should not forget to say that, at that point, I was still accompanied by two non-commissioned officers
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who had kept my documents since the day we had embarked to leave Albania.
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One of them was from Cosenza, the other from Catanzaro, and I think they were supposed to go back to Italy on special leave.
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When everything changed I was slightly worried: the two were beginning to need something to drink,
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and I was aware of how the Germans were not particularly fond of communists.
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One night, the Germans needed thirty people and came over to our shack.
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The two officers had been entitled to bunk beds, so they were sleeping in a corner of the shack.
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We slept on straw on the floor, and I managed to get into the group that was leaving.
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I never knew anything about them afterwards, and maybe I shouldn’t have done this,
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but I was afraid they would hand my documents to a guard. The guards were brutal there.
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They used to come inside in the morning, screaming the word “Aufstehn”,
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