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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Muth

A kind of resistance
video length:
01:44
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Innnsbruck
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D´Incecco
event
[1945-05-02] Karl Gruber, free Innsbruck The resistance group O5 takes over the city of Innsbruck. A native of Innsbruck Karl Gruber initially worked in various resistance cells, the organization launched in Berlin rose garden in cooperation with the Austrian resistance group and the O5 Kreisau circle and makes contact with the Allies. End of the war comes Gruber returned to Austria and freed in an adventurous manner Innsbruck before the arrival of the Americans.
place of recording
Innsbruck
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1944
transcription:
Yes. I was not a formal member of the Resistance. I was appointed in 1945 the main reason for the resistance movement had - two credentials as a member of the Resistance -, .. you have seen my work at the university so silent and watched me. At that time I sent my love above all federal brethren on all fronts letters and sent them letters of encouragement. It was then such a lively correspondence with my friends that I let pass in principle after the receipt of a letter from the front a month until I have responded, because I simply could not answer all that fast. And many of them are even dead. I then gave the letters to the archive. But many are alive and I are grateful. This was also a kind of resistance movement. The official resistance movement, precisely that of Otto and Fritz Molden, where I was not there. I got in May - in May 1945 found immediately following.