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Albert Brecher

The Americans were already in Zirl
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Grinzens
date of recording:
2008-07-07
event
[1945-05-03] U.S. troops in Innsbruck 103. U.S. 7th Infantry Division Army reach in the evening the already liberated city of Innsbruck. By 14:00 occupy Karl Gruber, Eduard Reut-Nicolussi, Anton Hradetzky, including the evacuated by the Nazis country house. The U.S. troops are welcomed by Reut Nicolussi with a short speech.
place of recording
Grinzens
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1945
transcription:
Since we received the "Order of frozen meat. Winter Battles in the East 1941-42. Yes, on after the third injury in southern Belgium, since then I have a splitter - 21 December 1944 in the left leg received. Then I'm back home, into the hospital. And there - in Innsbruck in the Saggenkaserne, so where is now the police headquarters, was once the Saggenkaserne during the war, the hospital waste. And, then I'm on 25 March 1945 and should have been dismissed on 9 be May in Znojmo. And since the Russians were already in Vienna. And I, "Yes, I will come to Znojmo, where the Russians are already in Vienna?" And then they sent me to Salzburg for the military district information center. And there I was then a captain, said: "You will indeed have no objection, we will send you to Landeck to the mountain troops." Then I'm back to Landeck. After a week they meet again, our 7, 8, to Innsbruck in the monastery barracks. Since we were then to 30 April. And the SS wanted to defend Innsbruck. And also wanted to force the Army mitzutun. And we are in the barracks? I with a rifle? gone with machine gun in position to defend against the SS and the Americans, who were already present in twelve kilometers Zirl.Also Innsbruck. And 30 April in the evening we're there by truck, the whole bunch, the barracks occupation, what was there, we were taken down to Wörgl. This was just a passing loop - because no one has taken responsibility - to surrender or - they have moved. We are in Wörgl just before the first Houses stood on the street hours. And taken in the morning to Kufstein in the barracks to lie down. In the evening we continued to Oberdorf, first to the inn Schanz, on savings Chen, a district of Kufstein, to Oberdorf. But before the inn Schanz. Is a single restaurant on the right. After Oberdorf and Ebbs. In Niederndorf I moved in the night in captivity. Since I was with one move. When Hitler one has had a work book. In my read: "He can mow milking, harvesting beets and chop."