The Carinthian Kurt Kramer (98) experienced the facets of the Second World War at the Reich Labor Service and as a soldier on the Eastern Front. Even if he experienced a lot of suffering, he never gave up hope. This may also have given him the strength for his more than adventurous escape from captivity.
Kurt Kramer, born on April 2, 1927, grew up in the Drautal and can look back on a life that could not move. When the Second World War breaks out, Kramer only ends at school and his carpentry starts in Feistritz/Drau. The first two years of apprenticeship are still calm, but from 1943 everything should change. “The internship was suddenly interrupted, I had to contact a lot of the same age in Villach, where we were all divided into armal workers,” the 98-year-old still remembers well: “We were then taken to German Essen to the Krupp Steelworks, where we were used in the armament industry.”
Source: Krone
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