Adam Stupp

“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.”

“Yes, of course that the Seliger Community has rejected from the outset the notion of the ‘Heim ins Reich’ (the back into the Reich concept). This Heim ins Reich mentality was one of the Nazis and as such, it was an outright rejection of National Socialism, that reverberated strongly at my home with my parents. So yes, it was of course especially attractive for me to join the Seeliger Community. I think that the Seliger Community has in particular contributed and has made the first steps towards a European rapprochement with the Czechs. The Seliger Community has somehow represented the pinnacle of all the German expellee-associations and it has been ready and eager to overcome the shadows of the past. I believe that the Seliger Community here has had a very positive impact.”