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- "Casualties from wounds, disease and frostbite were heavy. For the Partisans, to whom mobility was a prime consideration, the question of what to do with their wounded was a major problem. If they carried them with them, they hampered their movements. If they abandoned them, they met a terrible death at the hands of the Germans. Apart from this, they were short of doctors and lacked medical supplies almost completely. As a result, men were dying like flies." (en)
- "The morale of the army was shown to be dependent, in an intimate and mutual bond between the fighting Partisan and his wounded or sick comrade, on its ability to protect the defenceless and to preserve the unity and order of the whole main body under operational conditions." (en)
- "Then the door opened, and the Gestapo entered the house. They went into the kitchen, four of them, their heavy boots echoing along the uncarpeted corridor. They looked into her cupboards and took all her glasses and knives and forks, and then came upstairs and went into the bedrooms. I pulled back the magazine of my automatic pistol and put down the safety catch, expecting every moment to be found. They opened her wardrobe and found some sheets and pillow cases. They took them, they took her clothes hanging on the hooks and her old possum skin coat, and then marched out of the house. I breathed again and changed position and put up the safety catch." (en)
- "After we had been walking the forest road for almost an hour, Igor stopped, as though searching for something among the small trees on the roadside. We pushed our way through the low undergrowth, covering our tracks with dead branches, and then found, leading off at right angles on the stony forest floor, a series of "stepping stones". Igor carefully turned each stone over, exposing its bare side for us to step on, and so we crossed from one to the next. Then, as we passed, the mossy surface would be turned back again so that no sign was left. Thus we went for fifty yards until we were well screened from the main route, and our track started again. This method of conspiration was repeated several times, and then another method adopted." (en)
- "A surgeon was more valuable to us than a division!" (en)
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