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Maridl Innerhofer
Expulsion or return
video length:
2:45
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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1943
transcription:
During the Option those who d been part of the illegal movement against fascism were obviously deported first. They were deported first. Then they worked in North Tyrol, where I worked with them too. Then the sick ones were deported; they were transported by ambulance. Then they emptied the prisons, of South Tyroleans prisoners. After that the young men who had served in the Italian army left. Those who opted for Germany immediately joined the German army. Civil servants and people who had worked for the Italian state all got sent away or made redundant so they lost their livlihood and left on their own. Poor people came north first, because the Italian state didn't have enough funding to compensate those who had possessions. In the meantime the situation turned around. In 1943, during WW II, German soldiers marched into South Tyrol. Then, some of the evicted went back again- so after '43, some of them returned. But then it changed again, at the end of the war, we were Italian again. And all the time we never gave up hope, in '43 we hoped that we would be annexed to the German Reich, that we'd finally get away from Italy. But unfortunately it didn't work out that way. At the end of the war, we were Italian again.