WEBVTT - Hermann_Huter file: huter_hermann_160.txt

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Then they took us to a train station
close to Agram (Zagreb).

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We were herded into a stock car -–

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all of us into stock cars.

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And there a soldier who had been
noticeably

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quite badly beaten

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committed suicide.

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He had an egg hand grenade.

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He placed that egg grenade between his
belt and his belly

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and activated it. Obviously that tore
him to pieces.

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We all paid for that.

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I mean, they became more harsh. They
became so brutal

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and pushed us into the cars.

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Later, we really bore the brunt of it.

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As we were herded down the street ..

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Then we rode through Agram.

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They sent a partisan into each of the
train cars

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we were in. They only sent in one

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per car and that was a disadvantage for
them. - -

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He started at the back of the carriage -

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at the back of the carriage

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he started taking away everything we had
left.

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Some of us still had a nice fountain pen

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or were wearing a ring

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or still had a lighter.

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He took all those things away.

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Then he moved to the middle of the
carriage.

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There was a door there which was
three-quarters open.

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Two of the older soldiers -

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were standing directly beside the open
door,

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and behind them there were some others.

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Behind – behind them. Then he came

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and the two soldiers grabbed the
partisan's hands

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or his arms and threw him out.

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The embankment was high and at the
bottom there was a hedge,

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a "Pfetscherzau" as we called it, still
call it -

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we saw him roll down there.

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Probably he was dead, but I can't say
for sure.

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And they probably didn't find him for a
while -

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for quite some time

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otherwise they would have sounded the
alarm

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but nothing happened to us. If they had
caught us

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they would have shot all of us in that
carriage.

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Then again - after Agram they unloaded
us

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and we had to continue walking on the
road. -