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interview // german // 3:13 Min // 17.06.2008
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The women were really poor, I would say. Because they had to really pay for this, more than the others. But – I must say that as well – they were really brave women. Some were braver than the men. Three of those women I really took into my heart so I will never forget them. They had no fears. If there was any returned shooting they shot just the same as the others. But some were – I don’t know what to say - placid. They had nothing to laugh about, as well, because of their “monthly problems”. And manage all that there and get through that was not easy. But, thank God, they did get through it and did show courage. Most of them did the paper work in the battalions, for the bigger organisations. Secretary work and things like that. But not everyone got a job like that. But it was not easy for the women. And if I’m allowed to say something else: Some women were picked to help the wounded. They were also very courageous there. And they helped as well as they could. At the time, when I was wounded, that was on 19th March 1945, women were there, as well. They helped me first and then carried me to a farmer’s and from there behind a hut (we used to say bunker), that had been a wood shed before. They had a shack for the forestry workers and that was where I lived until the end of the war. And again it were the women who helped me. They brought milk, bread and sugar and things like that. They cared for me like the mother. I will never forget these people and you cannot repay for that either. Only a real thank you, nothing else.
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