Life among German soldiers in a village in Upper Hungary (today Slovakia)
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The reminiscence’s mother died in childbirth, so he was raised by his grandparents, in Gyömrő. The war lasted for three months there, the front was there. The village had a couple of hundred inhabitants. So it wasn’t big. „There were seventeen German soldiers there, when the Russians finally came over, there were a lot of Russian soldiers and we picked up these seventeen German soldiers dead.” „They were out on the Garam bank, the area behind them was mined, and the exit roads were mined too. So these seventeen young guys couldn’t escape, they could shoot as long as they were alive, but we picked up all seventeen, they stayed there. What happened to them then, God knows. What happened to them, whether they were taken home, we don’t know. (...) Now they literally fought until their last breath. They couldn’t do anything.” The filming of memories was made possible thanks to the support of the International Visegrad Fund.