Adam Stupp

“The winter of 45/46 in Vienna was a sad affair. There was nothing to eat, it was really bad. The caloric ration was pressed deeply down. The main daily diet was green peas but you had to cover the pot with a lid because otherwise they would run away as they swarmed with bugs. Or the bread, this corn bread, this greasy disgusting stuff which became really hard with time. So there was nothing to eat. I remember that I was invited on New Year's Eve of 1945 for a dinner and to celebrate the day. The dish was a roasted hare. When we had finished the dinner, I found out that it was in fact fox meat. So I ate a fox instead of a rabbit. So that was really bad.”

“My friend Földi said to me: ‘you know what, come to my place, I’m in the Marine Hitler-Youth Association, I’m the tribe leader’. I don’t recall the exact title of his position anymore, I think it was like the leader of the Marine Hitler-Youth. He told me that the regime of his unit is very relaxed – I’d only have to come to the meetings and exercises if I wanted to, if I didn’t like it, I could stay at home. Of course that I immediately accepted his offer and shortly afterwards, I found out that there was no service at all to be held. I received from Földi a Hitler-Youth badge, the badge of the Marine Hitler-Youth. I could henceforth show that badge to the local Hitler-Youth leaders who would then let me go. So I this is how I managed to evade service in the HJ with this HJ badge throughout the war years. After the war, I found out something that seemed to be the biggest surprise of my life without any exaggeration. It turned out that Hardy Reginald George Olgen Földi Nodurany, as he called himself, had an altogether different name and was no Hungarian citizen at all. Instead, he was a Viennese Jew named Fluß. His father had bought a Hungarian passport and moved from one district in Vienna to another and thus he and his family survived the era of Hitler without any harm.”