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Friedrich Fritz
Swimming under machine gun fire
video length:
01:21
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjain Epp
copyright location:
Wien
date of recording:
2008-06-13
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicol D´Incecco
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1944
transcription:
And we then have to swim in Petsamo three times by water. Five degrees below zero and snow is already located. With all the clothing, equipment and so on swim. The second time, a width of 40 meters and the area of this tributary of Petsamo two machine guns were installed by the Russians. They shot at us from 60 feet away. This is no distance - and we had to swim over there. And while we swam, they have hineingeschossen. Before me one of the pioneers squad - I have it at the time estimated, 80 men have been less likely it is, but it exaggerates. Or, in the case that there are forty, there is still enough. They are gone in, and the machine guns they have mowed down. Since fourteen men on the other side have arrived, and jump out when a shot has two catches - are also killed. Twelve men have passed.