Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Innsbruck

2008-08-21

My father had a very nice voice but he said - My grandfather, grandfather Brüll, had such a beautiful voice that ..I think some director of an opera house wanted him to come and sing there. But he couldn't do that because he had two businesses. We always sang when we walked, father and I. We always sang: "Zu Mantua in Banden" .. I learned later in the school .. that we also learned about Andreas Hofer, but that was before the war. But later, when they took South Tyrol I .. There's a song; I still know the words: .. "We don't believe it, we don't believe it that no one is breaking the shackles of injustice which shattered our native land and the people - the people who never tolerated foreign rule." Something like that.