02:20

Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Tisens

2008-05-06

1944

And that was a quite a nice house, the loft was all full of soldiers. Private, not a clinic. We have been joined already in place on Union Square. Since I have also knocked on the door. Hunger. Hunger was there. Hunger we had. Then I asked in Italian, not German. Since it has opened to me, a woman. Then she said she still had a few vegetables and potato, and can make us as a Ministrone, a soup .. I say, "Yes - all good." - And I'm sitting there in the kitchen. Then I should be asleep. I have been waiting for. As she says to me: "So, you're not a German." "No," I say, "no, I'm in South Tyrol." This has always been our strong point: South Tyrolean .. our strength, Alto Adige. Not German. Austrian goes, but not German. Nix German. Not inglese. As she says: "You know, where are you now?" "Yes," I say, "in a private home." There is a command of the guerrillas. .. which is in the house. Then she says: ".. four clock morning, the road is blocked .. look. You have to, four clock from the street to get away, because at four clock will shut the gate.