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Dietmar Schönherr

First volunteer, then a deserter
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Jürgen Pilger
copyright location:
Innsbruck
date of recording:
2008-10-03
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.
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1945
transcription:
So, I grew up here until '38, when the so-called connection was. And then my father, who was an active officer, moved to Potsdam in the heart of Prussian. And there I learned how to be treated as a Tyrolean boy with a heavy dialect of the children. So I can understand so well how do you feel today Turkish children when they are bullied at school since. And since you have to prevail then stop. And of course that was a big break in my life. So, I would - it would have been my life very differently if this had not just happened. And then later I volunteered for the mountain troops, so I'll be back home. And have been moved to Salzburg, and then I came right to Kufstein on the officers' school, and later to Landeck, and since the war was then. And since then I deserted, I was a .. was a volunteer - volunteer was for the officer's career. But as I've seen what's there were a mess, I thought, as I prefer to go to the mountains and forgave me from this mess. That was highly dangerous, and it is indeed so - say it again and again why, but the so-called deserters and deserters, who are not rehabilitated until today. They are therefore guilty of desertion - a swastika on it, that's the truth. And of course it was in the highest danger. It was much more dangerous than anywhere struggling with the gun.