Karel Prusnik-Gasper was a leading figure in the resistance movement during World War II. His memoirs, published in Slovenian in 1958, and his detailed records were not only an important early contribution to the lived and narrated history, but they were also driven by the desire to impart the foundations of a better life to future generations. In 1980, "Gämsen auf der Lawine" was published in German for the first time. How was the book received at that time, when engagement with this past was not yet in vogue, even before the debate in Austria about the horse and its rider, who knew nothing, began?.