Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Wien

2008-04-29

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicole D´Incecco

1945

Then, with first January 1945, the entire battalion was transferred from Innsbruck to Wolfsberg in Carinthia. We currently have long tried to thwart the (hintanzutreiben) .. with all kinds of tricks That's gone over two months when we tried this with the commander, with whom I was in a good relationship with Major Heine, a Knight's Cross, a 28-year-old, but this clearly anti-war Nazi - but after two months, the battalion has been moved to Carinthia. ... Of Carinthia from I have - because I was only able to work according to fitness level, not fronteinsatzfähig, I have applied for study leave, get study leave, and then I'm back from Carinthia, immediately - we were only 14 days, three weeks there, and also the commander. And we started in Innsbruck - I study leave, he was in the hospital, that is on sick leave, them together and our people, ultimately to the stage, then, has resulted in late April and early May days, for the adoption of Innsbruck, before the Americans came. Since then the question of internal organization was necessary. Of course you always had only small groups, which is an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage was when a group discovered, the network is not destroyed. However, it is obviously difficult, since to have a certain leadership. It has to be essentially improved somewhat, when an executive committee has been formed in the Tyrol, resistance to which we were involved, the Major Heine and I, and we then found that it suddenly is a second committee, and there was the question of reunification. We were obviously the only ones to have known that there are two, with the exception of a side who was the chairman was in another committee also there, but there has not said anything. It was clear that you had to make that clear, and I have also carried out there. It is interesting: There were two significant figures at each Executive Committee: On the one hand, Hans Gamper, high school professor, who was already before 1934 a member of the provincial government, and has said: "I am the person elected before 1933, and I have the claim." On the other hand, was a university professor Reut-Nicolussi, South Tyrol, and has also had his committee, and I then informed them, indicate that there is this. And then there was the question of who will be in bringing together the chairman. Both professors wanted to be. Then we have agreed on a young, that was the Dr. Gruber, always with the express or tacit consideration, it should try it once in the young, the first time they will wear out already. Now, they are not worn. .. Interesting events, if one looks so, but still has managed the executive committee together. a political responsibility to have. It was perhaps a bit of a mistake that we have said we are only responsible for the military, while the other will be the political realm, because I think there should be more one would get involved, no question, but one is behind always smarter. It was, after all, so that .. we have also had the connection to Molden, for O5 with the contact with the Americans in Switzerland, so we knew that our attitude is not for nothing, but makes sense.