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Hermann Aukenthaler

Not an ounce of sugar to a cow
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Pflersch
date of recording:
2008-05-12
event
[1943-05-11] Food - Rationing Reduction of the weekly meat ration. The weekly meat ration will be reduced by 100 grams.
place of recording
Pflersch
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1943
transcription:
Yes. 1943, there was still the war. And because the farmers have to deliver butter, or wool. And we had a yearling, one cow, bringing in the war loan, from Pflersch Sterzing, on foot. And as the mother was still alive. It has given us a liter of milk and a loaf of bread. We have eaten by now. And the cattle we have returned to a specific location. And since the father had to sign an undertaking that he has offered the head of cattle. As we left the house, the mother has said to their father: "You could buy some sugar and white flour for toasting, cooking." As he has said yes. And as we have given the beef, because we are in Sterzing around, it is said "to Zwölftorn. As the father says to me: "My good boy, now has her mother said today, I want to bring home flour and sugar and had received for the cattle no lire." This has been made in the war loan. I have no lire and they would have bought something. Now we have no money. "As the Father has almost started to cry. So we are empty. These were home experiences. This is true. That has just given the war.