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Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Innsbruck

2008-08-21

1933

... Then I went to school, to the Pädagogium, which was in Innsbruck, just around the corner. We lived in the Anichstrasse, around the corner was the big Pädagogium. It was the mixed school that I attended. We had a good teacher there, a professor. We got along very well with her. Once she even offered us to call her by her first name and if someone didn’t behave well in school - or something like that then the pupil had to call her "Professor". We called her "Ute" - her first name, she was more German - help me out - ... she somehow stressed her German origin. Once someone said something to her, she answered: I am German to the core’ - That somehow tells you - but she also told us about Andreas Hofer. I remember that well, I found it very sad. Well, I found it terrible, what they did to him. I cried bitterly, when she told us about Andreas Hofer, that he was shot. Back then I wasn't familiar with this, at least not as a child.- So yes, up there is the memorial, we played there a few times, around the memorial ... And Ilse went to a different school, or even two or three