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o. Prof. Dr. Helmut Heuberger

Surrender to the Allies Innsbruck
video length:
01:41
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Salzburg
date of recording:
2000-03-03
event
[1945-05-03] U.S. troops in Innsbruck 103. U.S. 7th Infantry Division Army reach in the evening the already liberated city of Innsbruck. By 14:00 occupy Karl Gruber, Eduard Reut-Nicolussi, Anton Hradetzky, including the evacuated by the Nazis country house. The U.S. troops are welcomed by Reut Nicolussi with a short speech.
place of recording
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1945
transcription:
We have in Tirol first air landing facilities prepared for the Americans, which was worked out very specifically. Since the former Secretary Steiner was instrumental in as an officer with whom I am friends since then. We then Innsbruck, yet given in the last few days, by the incredible impudence by Gruber in our hands and surrender the city to the Allies already be the masters of Innsbruck. The Americans who came were the wrong ones. Innsbruck were prepared for those who came from the south, but they were late. They're from Württenberg to us .. understood at all, which is Austria and have now sidelined. We wanted our organization prevent looting and so on, they have frozen out completely at first. So, those were the Bleier. The sad business was met. That evening, as the Americans invaded, I am gone home crying because I felt the incredible absurdity that I had to go against my own people to do for my country was. So, for me that was such anguish I went there not to Austria, I mean, am happy in Austria and I am Austrian, and that's no problem for me, but for me it was Germany! Therefore, I am just very quickly away from politics and then I went to university, and then that was my way to go.