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interview // german // 2:19 Min // 18.06.2008
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Well, we worked in groups of three, made agreements, always in a group of three. We met somewhere, where we could not be overheard, to prepare missions. Whether they were campaigns with flyers or posters or later on, when we realised that we did not achieve enough, acts of sabotage - that did not matter. So we thought: “Now the time is right for a big poster campaign!” Half a year after the invasion the two biggest companies in Eger, two bicycle companies, were halfway changed into armament factories. As a matter of fact every group of three put up 10 posters during the night and apart from one exception, which was the market square opposite the SS, the posters were hanging. All the other posters were hanging and in the morning the people walked past these posters, on which was written: “This is how the war is being prepared, resist early enough, before it is too late. The posters were hanging up, but when we then analysed and asked ourselves: “What did we achieve?” – We had learned that illegal work must move the crowds. – Then we realised that we had achieved only little and decided: ”From now on we will work at a stronger pace.” Many of us knew how to handle explosives and possessed fuses. As my home town Eger was a railway junction and therefore a strategically important line from Eger via Hof went to Berlin, the other one from Karlsbad Reichenberg to Breslau, the next one via Marktredwitz to Munich and another one via Frankfurt/Oder towards west, we said we will demolish the tracks. That is what we did and they were not able to carry out any armament transports, strategic transports and no passenger transports on this line for two days. It took them a while to manage that and they could not find out who did it.
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