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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Muth
The "pipe cap" with the bread
video length:
02:22
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Innsbruck
date of recording:
2008-08-10
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1918
transcription:
My memory, of course, far back. My birth was already hampered by a number of events. My father got engaged on 28 June 1914, was a Sunday. And in the midst of the engagement party - I have his engagement ring - in the middle of the engagement party were the shots of Sarajevo. My father was an officer in the Kaiserschützen was so confident right now is a war and he has to insert. So he has then decided on the day of engagement to marry soon. My parents have worked, I came on 1 January 1916 to the world. My mother unfortunately died when I was seven years old, of typhoid fever. But I still remember the World War. For example, an air raid from Italy to the station. We were on the road. My mother is full of panic in the apartment retracted. I remember also that my father was wounded on the Galician front, and then came to the hospital in Innsbruck. And then once a - his pipe cover, as it was called then, came to us and brought us a roll. That was something quite extraordinary. Has saved up my father. My mother had me when he came, lifted up to the peephole. I still remember exactly how this pipe cover the bread I held out. We were very excited. As you can see how sad was the time.