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Wilhelm Egger

Defiance of fascism
video length:
04:47
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Laurein
date of recording:
2008-05-08
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D´Incecco
event
[1935-10-03] Abyssinian - War The Abyssinian war ends with the annexation of Ethiopia, the then kingdom of Abyssinia and the founding of the colony of Italian East Africa, by fascist Italy. Italy warfare is characterized by the use of poison gas, of retaliatory massacres, the destruction of Red Cross hospitals, mass liquidation of the local elites and clergy, the contamination or burning of villages, livestock and fields. In this war, more Ethiopian civilians are killed than soldiers.
place of recording
Laurein
???iuimd_video_v_zeit_zuordnung_en???:
1935
transcription:
The Italians do not like to hear it: Hitler would not have been the second world war may begin, it would have Mussolini did not lead by example. Mussolini has broken 1935 in Abyssinia. The English have probably done something, but then nothing has happened. Mussolini has so fooled Hitler's Germany, as one can with impunity invade foreign countries. But the Italians now want not to hear. Subsequently, the so-called Hitler Pact of Steel, the treaty of alliance with Mussolini closed, ostensibly in the fight against communism, it was already danger from Russia. In Italy, there was a strong Communist Party, and so, the people shouted: "Hitler is our liberator of Italy and fascism!" Again, propaganda has been made and secret meetings in which German songs were sung. Nazi songs like "The flag high", "rows of tightly closed" or "Forward, forward smash the holy fanfare," I have sung along. That was the defiance of the fascist suppression of nationhood. Hitler had then said: "The South Tyrolean must get out!" The Italians, Mussolini and the Fascists have extra stresses: "It will give no more toleration of the Germans," A certain Mercedes Mascio said: "There shall no longer you look out the window. Then threatened the Italians: "The stay there, the optants coming then down to Sicily!" The people thus became so insecure that 82 percent of South Tyrol have opted for emigration. Hostility arose between relatives, between those who had opted for Germany and those who said: "We stay here, will not give up, but defend the thousand German soil." The Canon Michael Gamper has since used especially. Actually, you needed to not only choose, but simply maintain the status quo. But the propaganda from the outside was stronger, and people were confused by.