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Karl Stern

gunner will not shoot
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Neustift/Stubaital
date of recording:
2008-06-15
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D´Incecco
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1937
transcription:
And once, when I - a farmer's son of divergent was actually one that is even servant. I did not want to. And so I've come to the military. And since I am .. a Tyrolean met, who was a Major from the vicinity of Innsbruck. That was in Munich and was also at the Air Force. And he has chosen me as a driver. I had to make all four licenses since after Recruit Training. And then we get along quite well. And on Friday night he says he wishes me a nice weekend. Then I say, "Please, sir, asking to be allowed, if I could make a car with his slide into the Stubai." I do not have to. Then he flipped out. Thus, a nerve directly to it never occurred and he wants to see me no more on Monday. "Push Guard, as I'm concerned." But he does not want to see me. I should not have said that. .. I just wanted to say in Neustift, since they can now look to her. They have not seen a car and I drive up in a car. That was - that in the years is also forgivable, was a nonsense. Yes, and then I immediately had one and had to drive a truck, a quarrel and that was before the war. And there was on the airfield to the north - we need to just take things out on the airfield. And if a machine starts or flies, I had to start the engine. En sat next to me is orderly. Since there are two lieutenant. And one certainly speaks Höttinger dialect. I say: 'Sir, a moment, I'm from Stubai and you are a Höttinger. " And the pleasure has been! And I also. And then he says: "I look for a thing." If I could make him gunner. Then I say: "I would indeed shoot at someone who has done me nothing." I said, certainly the most stupid information. Then he flipped out, threatened me, he makes me court-martialed, .. there was no war. And then 14 days I have been very afraid of what he does? Then I thought to myself. "Now I go to the Tyrol and the nerves"