Die rote Kapelle Page #5
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- 2009
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May the God of old protect you.
Much love from your Cato.
When I went to Berlin
and saw Cato in prison.
She was brought to us. She had
Then I said
Cato, are you coming back with us very soon.
No, no, she said. Here.
A band around her arm with TK
Todeskandidat (Death candidate)
Cato, of course, cried, and I had a lump in my throat.
I could not say anything.
What could you say...
to someone who was near death
Especially for members of the Red Orchestra
in December 1942...
... in Pletzensee they suspended a beam
So they were not guillotined, but hung
The noblest execution was the bullet, then came the axe...
... and the most degrading form was
the noose
In her farewell letter Libertas writes:.
In reality, the family had been under strict orders...
. . to say nothing about it, otherwise
they would go to the concentration camp.
With regard to the Red Orchestra
... it was important to Hitler,
that no one came to know anything
he could not accept and he probably
could not even understand ...
... that there were decent people
A day after Himpel
was given the death penalty...
... my husband was released.
Himpel gave him his will on a smuggled note
and he took it.
This was ignored in the outside world
The door flew open and there stood Helmut.
He looked like a ghost,
he was so skinny. Terrible.
I took Himpel's will to
Seesenerstrasse.
I rang the bell,
but no one answered.
I walked down the stairs where I saw
Herr Terwiel, doctor Terwiel.
Had his mother opened the door?
I said:
No, no one came.I told him everything
and he was very nice.
He said:
How could I tell my mother that my sister was executed?Therefore we said that she went to Switzerland.
And Herr Himpel too.
After the war I found it interesting
to see that prison again.
What struck me was the ordinary
sounds that you could hear
prisoners
I recognised the man,
as he came nearer ...
... and there I saw that it was one of the worst
guards there.
My father sent me from Berlin a v-mail
... a letter that was put on film...
... he told that me of his sadness at learning
... that Arvid and Mildred were killed.
Sorry, what year was that?
- In 1945.
When the Allies were allowed in Berlin, he immediately went looking for everybody.
It stunned him, I could tell by the
way he was writing
it was such a shame to lose people
I used to put the pictures
of my parents on the table.
I found it so hard to imagine ...
... how they were when they were alive.
The images did not move, there was no film.
A few years ago I received a document
... that my father had completed just before his execution.
That said how tall he was.
He was 1.86 metres tall.
My grandparents had told
that he was 1.96 metres tall
I had always felt that I had that to look forward to.
When I saw that document
and found...
that we're practically the
same height.
I was shocked when I heard that the families of the resistance...
... ... even those of the 20 July resistance,
did not get pensions for many years.
Their husbands were treated as traitors...
... and although they had fought against Hitler
they got nothing.
But SS widows and people like that
did get a pension...
when they came due
I remember my sister Annemarie
told me...
... that the German government
paid reperations, and as I recall
It was about $ 25 per month
for what they had been through...
as a non-Aryan
living underground in Berlin.
.. the $25 dollars were also
intended to compensate...
... for the death of my parents
It was called Wiedergutmachung (reperation),
but this was not good..
I got 5 marks for each day that I had been detained
I say thats appallingl: If I had been
there ten years, I did what I had to.
Then I would have had more beer
The officer was obviously
de nazified, but that did not help.
I filled in a form form him
and to a question about my father I said ...
... he was executed.
He replied, full of hatred:
Your father's death is nothing.
That touched me greatly.
That's why I left.
I could not have
In West Berlin, it was such
that we were all afraid to say ....
... we had been part of the Red Orchestra because we felt...
... that the Nazis were everywhere
and still firmly in the saddle.
I have not lost
the fear of Nazis
They were still supporters of Hitler, only you did not see it anymore.
On the day of the capitulation
they did not suddenly become democrats.
In the late 40s, my parents and their friends were in the West ...
... again seen as traitors and spies ...
... ... because she had tried to fight Hitler with the wrong party
The war ended in 1945,
the Cold War began in 1947...
... and from that moment
former Nazis and Gestapo agents were...
... contesting the work of the Red Orchestra
Horst Kopkow had been a leading
investigator of the Red Orchestra.
He gave a statement to
the Allies...
... in return, the British secret service
gave him a new identity.
Kopkow became Horst Horst Kordes.
He soon made a new
career and no one stopped him.
Mr. Roeder, judge advocate
at the trial of the Orchestra...
... wanted to save his own skin and
he tried to convince the Americans that
... the Red Orchestra was still a dangerous and
active espionage group.
espionage-phobia was repeatedly
fueled by the Cold War.
The Gestapo described
the Red Orchestra as a ...
... symbol of Soviet espionage.
This was after 1945 when there was hostility on
both sides...
... both the West and the East
Heinz Hiihne, a journalist
for Der Spiegel...
Described an espionage group ...
which had signaled to Moscow.
How did you find out that
The 500 radio messages
spoken of...
... I would add:
unfortunately for me...
... was only an assertion by
some people...
... who were aware of certain things...
... but who obviously did not
have radio communications.
If the Red Army had received that type of information from the Red Orchestra
... which the more sensational reports spoke of ...
... they could have responded much
more efficiently to the Nazis.
In the West, they saw it as a
espionage group for the Soviet Union...
... and in the East as a group of scouts
Not spies, but scouts,
which had a positive tone.
Minister Mielke and the Stasi posthumously awarded
medals to members of the Red Orchestra...
.. as a kind of predecessor of the Stasi
I was shocked at
events in East Germany...
... portraits of members
of the Red Orchestra...
... sat beside portraits of DDR policemen...
...who were killed in firefights
between East and West.
The members of the Red Orchestra
were, therefore, used for propaganda.
Communism is not a political party,
but a way of life.
.. an evil way of life...
... related to a disease,
that spreads like an epidemic.
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