Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Wien

2008-04-29

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicole D´Incecco

1940

He came home for two weeks. Two weeks and then he died. Of course we could see that he wanted to do everything possible, everything possible in the last days of his life, During this time, I had been drafted to the labour force and I never saw him alive again. They also didn't allow me to go to the funeral. I was in Montmasson in the south of France, on the labour force with the division. And I already had leave to come to the funeral, They took it away again as I was leaving because the Gauleiter intervened. And our parish priest, our parish is in Innsbruck, called Mariahilf, a so-called rural parish. That dates back to a pledge from 1783, I think. This church was built ? to protect from war. That very attractive church over there. And it belongs to the state of Tyrol. Therefore it is considered a country church. and the parish priest is employed by the state as long as he is parish priest. He is also called a country priest. And the country priest was Msg. Danler, a very jovial man and good preacher. He always told me the same thing. He was already 90 years old. I met him twice or three times. He told me that my father was deathly ill, and it was clear he would die soon. Apparently he told my father: "Yes, you know, maybe you shouldn’t have expressed your opinion so loudly and clearly." And my father replied: "Yes, I was with the suffering church and you in the one that played taroc." The priest told me that three times in a row. until his last year of life: "Remember that!" "And tell your children." He was very moved by what had happened to my father. That's about it. A short version. what can't be said any better in a short version.