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I Struggled Against Partisans by Cosier

On an August day I became a Wehrmacht soldier. It happened near Wyazma, in 1941. I had to deliver feed for the army horses in the battalion. I was a soldier who looked after the animals and brush up the army economy. So I went only working with shovels and tripods and so on. Coming out of a turn of the road I've heard a voice to take my hands up. They were the Red army spy group, which had to stick into the place a German division near Wyazma disposed. But they were tired, hungry and angry and looking for a place to have a rest. "Stop! Hands up!"- A camouflage man said me. "Are there Germans in the village? How many"? "No, no. They have gone north against partisans. I'm only looking for animals and picking up forage." I had to bring them to. I knew the Germans must be here soon. "Well, you'll go with us to the village. But remember if you are liar you'll die at once." The muzzle of the heavy submachine gun stuck awkwardly into my back. There was the forester's house about a kilometer from the village. The village was a hamlet with ten houses. It was still in this morning, no movement inside. They stayed at the forester's, rushed away onto the first door. A young girl about thirteen years old, scared let them to go. They sat down and rested but looked out through the small window glass onto the street towards the hamlet side. She brought them some bread and fish. But they left her together with me in the room. "It's 03:00 p.m. approximately. The soldiers must be there" I thought, "I have to get out of here. If they would come, it will be hot." But these strong men tied my hands. I have to investigate something how to fool them out. Two went to sleep; the other one felt tired. He didn't look at me so much. So I have got free through the window with a jump. The hot solidity led my left shoulder only but I have already left. Near the road turn I have heard a noises. The military tracks directed to the hamlet. The German unit came in. "Look, here are the spies" I said to the officer sitting near the driver. "They caught me. I ran away from them. They shut me." They saw the tracks also. The partisans were in twenty meters away from near the barn. They shouted and shot at the Germans using the wall of the barn as a hide. But the mortar roared reaching all them, destroying everything inside.

A day after I had to go on the plane to Berlin. Fuhrer personally gave me the Iron cross for assistance in action against partisans. Now I have studing the external Bible course . So I'm interesting in all about God and our relations to Him. But before I repented I like drinking. At once I had had some drinks & I've seen a dream. This war in Babylon reminded me on my dream of the events of the other war. I had to write what happenned with me in my dream. This is the result of my imagination.

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