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CONSCRIPTION TO THE WEHRMACHT, INJURY (LIPEJ KOLENIK)

interview  // german  // 3:17 Min  // 17.06.2008  // Hits: 990
In March 43 I had to go to the army physician because I had to enlist. But I already had connection to the partisans. They came every day. In August I received the call-up to the army. Then I said: “What shall we do?” They wanted me to enlist but the mother was against it. Mother was frightened: “they will destroy everything and burn our house down and so on” and she cried. But I thought that the families would not have to pay so much. So I did enlist in Klagenfurt. And from above we may get a contact. When I was in Klagenfurt, you know anyway how it is with the military – today like this, tomorrow like that. From Klagenfurt to Salzburg; from Salzburg to Lienz, East Tyrol; and from there to Italy via Venice, Rom up to – where was that – near Monte Cassino. Then we were sent to the front. There I was wounded, had a first and second-degree frostbite and because of that I got into the military hospital in Italy, in South Italy (in Sora) from there to Venice, from Venice to Merano, and something like that. Then back to Germany, Black Forest, Solingen – there was a hospital. Afterwards I always thought: Well, I have to get out. I made an application to be moved to the military hospital in Klagenfurt. They did allow it and on the first day, when I was in Klagenfurt, my mother came to see me. She told me that the partisans said: “Come and join us soon, we are waiting for you!” After 14 days the medical consultant of the hospital said: “I will grant you a holiday although I know 100% that you will never come back.” My answer was: “I will come back, of course, where else should I go?” I was with walking sticks, like today; I couldn’t go anywhere in any case. It is just a shame that I didn’t go back to that doctor after the war. Then I could have reported: “Mr. Consultant, I am back.”

Kolenik, Lipej
@THE SECOND WORLD WAR
1943
Contemporary witnesses of the Nazi-Regime

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