[VideoView]

Georg Cernusca

Horse Regiment
video length:
01:43
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Innsbruck
date of recording:
2008-08-21
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1926
transcription:
Yes. So, I have made service in the cavalry, so the soldiers with the horses. For us, it has - at that time the military was moving so far as that one had to ride it can. And depending on when you were in the infantry, so it's just a lot of walking on foot. And each time with the horses now - if I - because they have natural-commissioned officers practiced things that one has not actually used on a horse bareback high jump and so on. Those were their ideas. Which led the horse so all around. The horse then has made such a circle, which was perhaps 15 feet in diameter. And while things had to somehow jump up on this horse. I was a good gymnast. And I had a look at the step, for the horses to beat out, yes. And above all these horses have such big feet, and which are so terrible all been great with us. I've learned. And I was lucky, it worked. Now this - .. Regiment, which has been named after some general here. So this has been told. And that - that was a city of 40,000 inhabitants might have been, about 500 kilometers from my town of Cernovicz away.