Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Zirl

2008-08-19

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

1934

Yes, and in elementary school it was like this: One day I asked the cooperator, what do I want to be. Yes, I am ten years I did not even know what. Then he says: "Would not you be a priest?" And I suppose I have not said no. I can not remember. In any event, a half later I then came to Graz in a monastery. And in Graz - that was 1935 - I am three years have passed school in the Prince Bishop's minor seminary, it has been called at that time. In the grave road. And the monastery was on Lindweg, which was going about ten minutes. Beautiful building! So a - a building, so - as it has since been called? - Built around the turn of the century, the house, nice, great - so everything is fine. Certainly was somehow acquired by the monastery. So was not built by the monastery. And 1938, then the invasion has been. And - I can still remember well, because we then had a school celebration, just once. The professors in the school were all priests, not just one. And a priest has since held the speech - at the ceremony. And then it was in the Catholic Church back then: The National Socialism of the time was not the enemy, but communism. And after the leader as in "Mein Kampf" and so on - it was so that in the monastery which has been endorsed, at first. Yes! Yes! And in this speech, because the professor has said repeatedly this phrase: "And above all stands the bloody red Soviet star." He has repeated again and again. We then counted, it could four or five times have been. Again and again. Then, a few days later, then ... ... the leader himself was in Graz. And the whole convent were all there. Up to two. I and a classmate from Lower Austria. Why am I not go? I do not know. We were upstairs in the attic, there was a large box of stamps. And it was far more interesting than the leader. And then, we know how it does arrive, then those who have shown the true face. I then get a letter, they're sorry, the school is closed, the monastery beyond this and that, and they wish me good luck for the future. And when I went in Innsbruck on in the school.