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Dipl.-Vw. Dr. Ludwig Steiner

Brenner: Military limit
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
event
[1945-04-28] Amis in Tirol American troops cross the Austrian border in Tirol. The plan was that coming from southern troops should come after those from the south. And they come before and are instructed not enough.
place of recording
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1945
transcription:
. So far as .. of course, was the difficulty that there was suddenly a burner on military border, the military frontier so far: From the North should indeed originally General Bradley to the third U.S. army and go over the burners. The Americans with whom we had contact, have said that the army Bradley over the Brenner to northern Italy to advance. But with the surrender of the German Italian army General Bradley came much later, by a few days, almost a week. Therefore, it was at the Brenner frontier command of the American invasion army in Italy. And in the north, the third Army began a military frontier was thus suddenly there. Since the compounds were naturally difficult to South Tyrol. The first time you could come only with an American marching orders to South Tyrol. I did that twice. And then I could enter with a French military paper with a direct marching orders to South Tyrol. This hope, the Army's Bradley to North and South, has been nullified. - Yes, we had then ... South apropos: We have already had the idea in 1946 that we actually continue with the resistance in South Tyrol same. But there was little echo of South Tyrol page.