06:16

Ruth Deutschmann

Kufstein

1999-03-26

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicolse D ´Incecco

1944

Then I had to go back to report. The Gestapo demands my return to the military district command 3 to Salzburg. But the general has refused. Who's rejected. And the cleaner has once again told me: "You, today, the Gestapo were the General." But the general has declined, which has not lent me. This was so. When they learn that is at the front, they have him back and then have him killed. You can read it, here in Vienna, the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance. Hundreds! After a few weeks I get a postal letter box. And in this war letter is inside, "You're fired for Wehrunwürdigkeit from the German Wehrmacht Toni.." Signature. Well. "Now is the oven off," I thought. 'Now they know who I am or that I had a Jewish grandfather or anything they have experienced. And they insist that I must return to Salzburg. " With this letter I was able to obviously not reported to the General, for there would probably have to cut back and the General Pistorius. So - what I had for a long time ago and had prepared - tonight I walk through. The Red Army was removed in distance, just 200 meters from us. I had already prepared everything. What I do not need - only the bare essentials, what would I need, I take with me. And I'll get up, I will lay me down to get up earlier, I am at a quarter Twelve. It's as if I like the weapons - was accepting the Munitionsverschussmeldungen the whole army in the whole section and then passes them on to me prescribed headquarters. But it was a quarter before twelve, comes "Alert! Alert! The Russians have broken through!" So? everything, everything? all. We have all had to sleep in the uniform. The officers have all slept in the pants, which did not become ready to get dressed as quickly as possible. I was already dressed completely burn out the secret things. And "what do we do?" No one has any idea, no officer has any idea of a sudden I get the message: ". Mandler! Mandler! ! Mandler.?, Shouts someone tell me I see him then, a sergeant, I said: "I am the Mandler, what you doing". "You come right with me, you're classified as a detector," Do I thought: "As a detector? This suicide mission? That there are not "I'm the sergeant said." You know, that is not yet possible. I'm - I'm up against an old man! I, as a detector? "" Yes, not long red, pack your stuff, what you definitely need, get into a sidecar, we take off immediately. "We drive off. As detectors. After Vitebsk inside. Wizebsk earth we keep this Vitebsk city is supplied already so underground, with ammunition and food, that there is an army here knows God can endure as long, but we did not pass, we did not pass until we told the senior officers, a lieutenant colonel.. "boys will return order Vitebsk is lost. You never come to this place. If you also have the command, the marching orders to Vitebsk. But you see, yes, who else is. Everything has been worried that the Russians are after us. Turn around, "have told us. So we turned around and drove back. The general was already on a new base. I then talked so - I knew that the sergeant - it was probably a captain or something. He was the staff of General Pistorius. I scolded him so first, and I thanked the Pistorius. He has me classified as a detector only so that I am not the military police now at the last moment caught. For now they need not go to the General. In his compartment, where we were in the divisional staff, without personal approval of the General Pistorius was allowed to enter not one of the military police in our base. The General knew that they look for me! And that they will take me. And so he has me classified as a detector, so that the military police can not find me because I was nowhere to be found.