English subtitles for clip: File:01 Anschluss, persecution, propaganda for resistance (Lipej Kolenik).webm

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The father, Wasilij, was still young.

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He kept saying of National Socialism: “That will be no good.”

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Afterwards, the authority was taken over by the Nazis,

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they immediately locked up a number of people of the Slovenian minority

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and priests. We saw it would not be the way it had been promised before.

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It was a time without work and bread.

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That helped the national socialists to come into power.

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And many let themselves be led by the propaganda

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and even believed that everything would be okay again.

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That the people would live well – under Adolf Hitler.

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But when the first Slovenians were locked up, we already knew my father was right.

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The people lost their belief in Adolf Hitler

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and the resistance formed against fascism and Hitlerism.

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The first deserters from the ‘Wehrmacht’ had already escaped to Yugoslavia in 1939.

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After the occupation of Yugoslavia they were arrested or had gone into hiding under a false name;

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as my colleague Karl Potoschki did.

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He was working under false name at a hotel in Bosnia.

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On the 20th October 1939, he was shot together with 20.000 ‘chosen ones’ and finished off.

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Those coming back after the occupation of Yugoslavia were mostly locked up,

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respectively were the cadres of the liberation front of the Slovenes of Carinthia.

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Some joined the partisans straight away; others later on, but the beginning had been made.

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From day to day the resistance grew stronger.

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Today, when you realise how courageous the people were –

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then again it involved the ‘head’ and the people didn’t have a clue.

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The plain people were the ones that helped the rebellion.

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Without the help of the rural population, resistance would have been impossible.

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Only because of this it was possible that the number of partisans became bigger each day.

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And the hope that one day things would change.