https://doi.org/10.59132/zvs/2023/2/15-37
Izvleček
Prispevek obravnava obdobje druge svetovne vojne in nekaj let po njej. Temelji na spominih Franca Kunstlja s Sela pri Vodicah, ki je bil kot 17-letni fant 1. avgusta 1943 prisilno mobiliziran v nemško vojsko. Njegova usoda je bila podobna usodi mnogih slovenskih fantov in mladih mož, ki so bili v času mobilizacije leta 1943 stari od 17 do 27 let. V prispevku sledimo usodi Franca Kunstlja, ki je bil prvič ranjen že med usposabljanjem, drugič pa na vzhodni fronti, ko se je želel predati Sovjetom. Po trimesečnem zdravljenju in kratkem dopustu, ki ga je preživel na smučarskem tečaju v bavarskih hribih, je konec marca 1945 ponovno odšel na fronto. Desetega maja 1945 so ga zajeli Sovjeti in ga z množico drugih odpeljali v ujetništvo, ki so ga uredili v nekdanjem koncentracijskem taborišču Auschwitz. Po treh mesecih in pol lakote in prisilnega dela v sovjetskem ujetništvu se je vrnil v Jugoslavijo, kjer so ga po nekajdnevnem zasliševanju 8. septembra 1945 spustili domov. V času Informbiroja leta 1948 je služil še vojaški rok v Jugoslovanski armadi (od leta 1951 se je imenovala Jugoslovanska ljudska armada).
Abstract
Forced Conscription into the German Army during World War II. Memories of Franc Kunstelj from Selo pri Vodicah
The article discusses the period of World War II and a few of the post-war years. It is based on the memories of Franc Kunstelj from Selo pri Vodicah, who was forcibly conscripted into the German Army as a 17-year-old boy on 1 August 1943. His fate was similar to that of many Slovenian boys and young men, who were between 17 and 27 years old at the time of the 1943 conscription. The article follows the fate of Franc Kunstelj who was first wounded during training and then for the second time on the Eastern Front, when he tried to surrender to the Soviets. After a three-month recovery and a brief vacation, attending a ski course in the Bavarian hills, he went to the front line again in late March 1945. He was captured by Soviets on 10 May 1945. They took him and many others to the prison they had set up at the former Auschwitz concentration camp. After three and a half months of hunger and forced labour in a Soviet prison he returned to Yugoslavia, where he was interrogated for a few days and then sent home on 8 September 1945. In 1948, at the time of the Cominform, he performed military service in the Yugoslav Army (called the Yugoslav People’s Army after 1951).