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Objecting army duty – escaping from social service
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‚My dad screamed every night from his nightmares, from the war. Do you have any other questions?‘
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So, I’m back there. I still go to the farming, now all in red clothes and the farmer is thinking,
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‚What the banana is wrong with this guy? Why is he wearing only red clothes?‘
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And then after about …
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September, 5 months or so, I’m waking up in the middle of the night, laying on my back, I never sleep on my back, I always
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sleep on my right side, I wake up, I feel this very strong presence in the room, I think, ‚What in the world is this?‘
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I open my eyes and I see Bhagwan sitting in a big chair,
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kind of like this, that he looks at me, he says, ‚Come back immediately.‘
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And then I went back to sleep. In the morning, I called the farmer, I said,
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‚I’m so sorry, I love you, I love your work … but I can’t anymore. I have to do something.‘
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Very quick. Boom, like that. My parents were like … (astonishment),
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because I loved it. So it was the first time I stopped doing something that I loved.
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Now is the second time.
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So, I worked at a postal train station in Dusseldorf at the time.
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Now we’re in 1979 in the winter.
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All the care packages that were sent from West Germany to the former East Germany,
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from our area in Central and Western Germany, they passed through Düsseldorf.
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They needed people to throw parcels around, to unload trucks, to unload trains, and they had swing shifts,
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where sometimes you wouldn’t see daylight for days. They paid really, really well.
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All the people who were doing it were hippies that were on some kind of hippie trail.
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They made a lot of money very quickly in three months, and then took their money and (whistle)
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went somewhere, went to Greece, or to Ibiza, or to Goa or to …
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Sounds familiar.
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And I went to Poona afterwards, and now it’s very funny.
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Meanwhile I had my adventure with the German army.
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I refused to go to the army.
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I won, I went there all in a red robe wearing Osho’s picture, saying,
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‚I don’t want to go to the army, my master, my spiritual master is Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
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He is against soldiers, he’s against army. Here are all these books where he talks about this and that.‘
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And they were looking at me and were going, ‚Oh, this guy is trouble.‘
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And then they said, ‚Do you meditate also?‘
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I said, ‚Yeah, I meditate every day, every day.‘
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‚What do you do when you meditate?‘
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Somebody of the secretaries before my court case, had told me that the main judge was deaf,
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was a little deaf. So he said, ‚You have to speak up!‘
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So when he asked me, ‚What do you do when you meditate?‘ I screamed at him:
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‚NOTHING!‘
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Like that.
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That’s the whole purpose.
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And then he asked me, ‚What does your dad say about that?‘
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Because this was one of the things that the German dad would probably say:
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‚Oh, you’re a wimp, you’re a nothing, you’re not a man, you’re not going to the army,
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you’re a Drückeberger‘ (draft dodger)
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… Coward …
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I said, ‚My dad, until three years ago, was screaming every night from his nightmares from the war. Do you have any other questions?‘
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And he said, ‚No, no, it’s okay. You can go out and we’ll call you back in.‘
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I didn’t even make it to the door, they said,
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‚Okay, okay, okay, we really don’t want you,
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but you can disagree with that and put in another application if you want to join.‘
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I said, ‚No, thank you.‘
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So. But that meant I had to do social work for a year and a half.
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When I quit my apprenticeship, I would have had to say – to call the office that was responsible for that and say,
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‚I’m out of my education now and I’m ready to do the social work.‘
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But I thought I would just escape.
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So I didn’t call them, I worked at the postal train station,
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then booked the cheapest flight – sold all the things that I had, my childhood stuff – and booked the cheapest flight out.
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The cheapest flight was with Czechoslovakian airlines or something with a stopover in Prague.
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So, I went to Frankfurt from Düsseldorf and I remember standing at the passport control thinking,
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‚Oh man, I hope they’re letting me out, I hope they don’t know
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that I’m supposed to do my social work, that they’re not connected. I hope they let me go, they let me go.‘
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So, I was a bit shaky.
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And then the guy looked at me and went: ‚Out‘.
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So I’m in Czechoslovakia.
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Only in red with this picture of Bhagwan and I took the subway somewhere and one lady sitting next to me,
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she says, ‚Oh, is that Karl Marx?‘
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(laughter)
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They both have beards.
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They looked the same.
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I said, ‚No, no, it’s my aging guru.‘
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It was like minus 17 degrees and the next day I was in Mumbai with plus 35.
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Gone! I had escaped.
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I went there really thinking that I am never going to come back,
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I’m going to stay here for the rest of my life with Bhagwan
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trying to figure out who I am.
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Translation: AI
Transcript: René Vögtli
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