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Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Tisens

2008-05-06

1944

And me .. the minister is interested in the village. The interested me. .. It is not a man killed. Do you understand? No one has fallen, because I had everything arranged with the pastor. We have never been .. confronted, partisans on the one hand, we on the other side. We never came together. --- I'm so directed. With my knowledge of Italian I have had prestige among the people, and the minister has had to trust me. I said: "We will not sacrifice human lives, as far as we are with the war." Quite the most beautiful thing I must tell yet. It is a command came. For the hole and the other man, a Untersteirer with Czech names. The all down .. Slavic spoken - He was a student. We should report to the Division. The division command was in Trieste. We have reported to us. The next day we were to go spy on guerrillas uniform. - I was quite flabbergasted. Then we are .. should have been divided and so spying in the city limits, .. . how much and where are partisan and their command, and what is going on back and forth. As I say to Franz: .. "Do you know .. if this comes up, they hang us?" Since running a girl .. from the potato field her: "Oh, the Konrado isch now at the guerrillas!" Do you understand what that means? The girl has known me, who was with the woman there in the village, and has seen me more often than German soldiers there. And now she sees me as a partisan officer! And the run down the potato field and says: "Konrado is now in the process even at the Tito troops." It was a joy, a universal joy. The next day I volunteered in the military command. That was a risk! "As a German soldier can you tell me stand where you like, I'll do my duty. But not as a partisan in uniform." I never go longer need.