Groggel, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2009

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Title

Groggel, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2009

Contributor

Krieger, Ben (Interviewer)
Schram, Donald (Interviewer)

Description

Richard Groggel served during World War II in Germany and France as a Replacement Officer for the 90th Division in 1944. Shortly after arriving, he and his severely shorthanded platoon were captured by a German outfit when defending from a pillbox. Groggel was then registered as a POW on December 9, 1944 and was sent to a camp in Poland. A few weeks later, as the Russians approached, the prisoners marched across Poland to Germany, under grueling conditions, and then had to march south from Hannover to Munich as other Allied forces approached. His liberation by General Patton's forces came on April 29, 1945 in Münchberg, Germany.

Date

2009-10-11

Rights

Publisher

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Identifier

GroggelR0327V

Format

application/pdf
video/mp4

Type

Moving Image
Text

Language

eng

Citation

Groggel, Richard, “Groggel, Richard (Interview outline and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed December 23, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/28945.
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