04:18

Ruth Deutschmann

Kufstein

1999-03-26

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicolse D ´Incecco

1939

I was terribly afraid of Dachau. I knew - was then in Salzburg. Was expelled by the Nazis, was alive but abandoned by a man I am still grateful today for that. And was even promoted to the insurance that did not know who I am. But I was afraid of Dachau. I'm in hiding - I was the head of the country's illegal underground Communist Party of the province. This has never experienced the Gestapo. I've severed all my contacts. I told everyone, he may no longer greet me on the street. He dare not pursue me or plugging me something, I will monitor, you should leave me alone, they must now worry about finding a new country manager in the illegality of the Communist Party. You know, I had got the job in the underground, build up the site of an illegal newspaper. Buying an entire print shop. 've Done it all. In hiding could not ask. I've paid at the beginning everything with my savings, but then my courier blew up at a Vienna trip. There, the Gestapo was sitting in the restaurant. And I had no connection anymore. And then I had to court and had to compensate, or bankruptcy. I'm obliged to pay 50 percent of all debts voluntarily. And the judge agreed. I was not locked up in verso, but I have to pay a lot of years until I had paid off all this money. I tried to come to Yugoslavia. I had an illegal stop in Leibnitz, Styria. Gave me an illegal stop, five feet away from the border with a farmer. And he was very anxious. Who said, "You think I, who know something about me and I already fear for my daughter, Kathi, for leading the people always on the border." And it was also very anxious, but they is then not attend on the night with me. But about a kilometer before the border, they said, "You, now I go on no longer over there, because the Gestapo is now with dogs and that is very dangerous, I can not go on.." And I told her.! "But I can just not on, I'm short-sighted I run that into the hands up to the border lead me in any case, if I'm over there, then I'll have myself have the option for me watch and get ahead. " But no - then she said: "Then let it be." I'm back - I am back to Salzburg. But my fear has not left me. And there came to me one night a thought. I escape from the Gestapo in the German Wehrmacht! I register voluntarily to join the German army. This is the only option. The will accept me and the Gestapo see me no more non-govern in Salzburg and then probably forget me too.