European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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At first, we wondered what we were supposed to do – maybe get some coffee! –
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then four or five of them came inside and started acting rough.
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We immediately understood that we had to get up, even if we couldn’t understand the word.
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They were really mean there, so I left and went to this other camp,
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by a large river that had just been bombed, where we started to work.
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I lost all contact with the two officers afterwards, since that place was basically a marshalling camp,
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where 100-200 prisoners arrived by train every day.
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I’ve been in four different German internment camps.
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The last one I was in, where we were finally set free, was called Wickede and was in Westfalia, near Dortmund.
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Normally people used to go to sleep immediately.
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The camp I’ve been in for the longest period was in Hagen, again in Westfalia, near Dortmund, which was a very big city.
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In Wickede, I had to get up at 5 in the morning, walk 2 km to the station,
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travel by train for 70 km, then walk to the job I had,
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and sometimes I would end up getting back at nine in the evening.
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