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Dipl.-Vw. Dr. Ludwig Steiner
Signals of the surrender of the southern army
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Wien
date of recording:
2008-04-29
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D´Incecco
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1945
transcription:
It is so, we have tried - about the end of March, early April 1945 - was the question: how is South Tyrol? We tried, to make contact with South which is approximately the same objective as we have had in Innsbruck: Acquisition time of administration and the elimination of military structures. In South Tyrol is, as we know, largely failed And for us was the question: What are the Italian partisans? I then get the Americans a contact name and have me in Armentarola that is in the Val Badia in star in or was there a hotel Armentarola,I believe that now is an entire settlemen of course, there I met an Italian partisan leader. who the "Catorno has mentioned. but of course that was just a code name. We discussed a full day or half day, which occurs, and the objective was, to South Tyrol should on its own - take the power into the hands off, uso to speak, and the German Wehrmacht. As we wanted to do in Innsbruck. Then we - it was the end of March, the beginning of April - we arranged to meet again within 14 days. We informed the American posts of the contact to the partisans via radio. They never answered. Because - and we only found out afterwards - the Americans had already gotten wind of the capitulation. The German army in Italy with SS-Obergruppenführer Wolf, the colonel general of the Waffen-SS, Wolf - was already in contact with them and of course they were interested in achieving the capitulation of the entire army. That was obvious. That's why we didn't accomplish more and we never really got a reaction from South Tyrol. There were one or two people we were in contact with who didn't - couldn't - do anything.