WEBVTT - Konstantin_Forestier file: forestier_konstantin_40.txt

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After a few months my father found a
flat in Innsbruck.

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Now the question was: How do we get to
all our possessions?

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By coincidence, 14 days

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before our provisional moving date

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to Innsbruck, the Austrians and the
Germans

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had re-conquered Jaroslaw. My father
went to the head of the

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military command of Tyrol and

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asked him "How do I get to my
possessions?

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I don’t have a single piece of
furniture, I’ve got nothing to move,

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I’d like to get to my things." To which
he replied:

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"You’re not really thinking, that now,
after 14 days you can

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run a transport from Jaroslaw to
Innsbruck -

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that’s completely impossible. Forget
about that

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and think about another solution.’

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Angrily, my father wanted to return

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to his office.

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Then right when he was leaving

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a sergeant accountant came up to him

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and said "Sir, Major or cavalry captain,

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whatever his title was then. "I
overheard your conversation and

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luckily, I have a business friend in
Jaroslaw - named Veilchenblüh.

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If I write to Veilchenblüh, with a
request, then he will help.

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All you have to do is to find someone,

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who’ll go to Jaroslaw and say:

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"I want this, I want that - and this is
here and that is there."

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My father's military batman,

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Stefan – a postman in civilian life.

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Stefan went to Jaroslaw and got the
order,

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to do whatever was possible. Despite all
our misgivings,

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four, five weeks later, the

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accounting sergeant came and said:

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"I am working on the transport bills,

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and your freight is at the central train
station. I have to note, however,

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that it is not military freight,

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and you have to pay the incurred costs.’

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Well, my father paid the cost,

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received the bill of transport and we

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moved into our empty flat in Brunecker
Strasse, back then Bahnstrasse.

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And everything went quite well again.