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In 1936, many of Gerhard Franzky's friends joined the Hitler Youth. For them it was like the scouts [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Leslie V. Freeman how it felt to be part of a liberating force.] He felt very...

Alan Moskin was born May 1926 in Englewood, New Jersey. He went through school there and was skipped from third to...

Onesi recalls his time in the prisoner of war (POW) camps. If they were not sergeants, they would have been better off...

Ruth Switzer recalled her father moving the family to a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York to take over a...

Mengele [Annotator's Note: Dr. Josef Mengele] told Charlotte Weiss that Rosalie was not strong enough to go on a...

Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator that was shot down over Ploiești, Romania. He says...

Lawrence Angst became a combat medic [Annotator's Note: in 2nd Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division...

Vincent Losada was commissioned as a flight officer after he received all his training. He was sent to Drew Air Force...

The 20th Engineers was the first unit to go into Bizerte. George Griffenhagen and his fellow engineers spent the first...

Henry Heim was 17 years old when he went to work in the mine with his father. He shoveled coal into a buggy. His father...

James Britt went to OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school]. He was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma to an...

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