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Maridl Innerhofer
The only requirements: German talk
video length:
2:34
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Marling
date of recording:
2008-05-06
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D´Incecco
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1939
transcription:
Hitler and Mussolini, what a friendship. When they met at the Brenner pass and all that- we South Tyroleans were also very touched by these events. I still don't understand why people weren't smarter and didn�t realize that nothing good would come of Hitler. But it was simply that we were so oppressed, that the South Tyroleans only had the one wish - to be able to speak German and to read and write German, to have German signs and village names and German names at the graveyard. It was so bad under the fascists, that all we wanted was to be German. "Well, so Hitler comes and occupies us, then at least we can speak German." We didn't know that he was the same rogue as Mussolini. We only knew Mussolini and had been oppressed by him from 1919 to 1939. Sometimes on the anniversary of my father's death a bouquet of flowers, carnations, was left on his grave at night. Who knows who put it there. Maybe my mother arranged it. Anyway: red and white carnations-the Tyrolean colours.They would go to my mother and say: "Red and white carnations!" My mother was clever enough to reply: "There are also green leaves in it!" There were Fascist celebrations when the whole village had to be decorated with Italian flags Our house was on the square opposite the town hall and had a balcony. The Italian Tricolore were out everywhere. My mother just didn�t hang one out. Then they came again but she really was able to get her way and did not hang out a flag.