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• Text: ...Netherlands • Their were minorities from Dutch colonies on the ship and John felt they were all treated very badly, like slaves • They had two meals a day, were lucky enough to have nice weather, but had a long trip because of the zigzag course they had to take (26:15) New Guinea ...

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• Text: ... they had frostbite in both feet • They traveled through Belgium and then back into North Germany • They found some slave labor camps in North Germany that were mostly filled with Russians • Lavont was in charge of about 50 Russians from the old camp, making sure they received ...

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• Text: More than 21, 000 Japanese were killed on Iwo. A few surrendered along with the Korean slave-laborers. During the battle, official signs had been posted "We need a few of the enemy to interrogate." The general response was, "OK, But do you mind if they're dead?"

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• Description: ...After the war he stayed with crew of LST 720 and sailed around China, Korea, and Japan helping transport liberated Chinese slave laborers and Japanese soldiers back to their home countries. In spring 1946 they sailed for the U.S. and arrived in Bremerton, Washington in May 1946. The ship wa...
• Text: ...t it would take the men longer to get discharged and get home -Stayed in the western Pacific for six months -Brought Chinese slave laborers from Japan back to China -Brought Japanese soldiers and their families from China back to Japan -Took supplies to Korea -Got along well with the Japa...

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• Description: ...He was with the division as it advanced through Germany and witnessed the liberation of multiple slave labor camps. After Germany's surrender in May 1945, he was part of the Army of Occupation and served in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. He left Germany in summer 1946 and was discharged at F...
• Text: ... but robberies and rapes started to happen -Had to gather them back up and place them in the camp until rear troops arrived -Slave labor from Yugoslavia, Russia, Poland, and France (00:36:29) Occupation Duty Pt. 1 -After Germany surrendered in May 1945, he became part of the Army of Occup...

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• Text: ...ower to push forward which they did and got down to the city of Calhoun. (0:46:07) Briefly tells of how the Nazis instituted slave labor in their factories. Buteyn mentions that he was part of the the force sent south from Remagen to surround large numbers of Germans, who then surrendered t...

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• Text: ... • They then went to Egypt and stayed in a hotel • After that they went to Iran for a week • In Iran there was a slave market where they were selling Caucasian women for less than $50 (42:00) POWs • In Russia they were supposed to get Americans who had been in prison camps ...

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• Text: ... Islamic State in Iraq and Syria -Feels that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is an abomination -Funded by the sex slave trade -Carries out brutal executions -Could have been snubbed quickly had the U.S. stayed in Iraq -Iraqi government wasn't stable enough to hold off ISIS -...

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• Text: ...They could pick you up on the street like they did me because I was supposed to work as a slave laborer in Germany. Interviewer: “Now how soon did they start to move people out of the Netherlands as slave laborers? Was that later in the war, or were they—” No, that was a bit ...

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• Text: ...ng for him (01:16:17) A lot of Hitler‟s army and war effort was run on synthetic petroleum (01:16:52) o They used a lot of slave labor (01:17:09)  The slave labor moved a lot of the male German population out of the industries and into the military They got close to the Austri...

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• Text: ... roof of a railroad station and drinking wine -Ran into a French brother and sister that were Displaced Persons and had been slave laborers -Learned about what they went through -The average person was ready to give up long before Germany surrendered -German civilians were very compliant wi...

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• Text: ...ino resistance liberated POW camp Cabanatuan -On January 27, Lee’s father had been taken from Cabanatuan to go to Japan as slave labor -He was placed in New Bilibid Prison in Manila -Lee was allowed to go see his father through a prison window -From New Bilibid he was placed on a ship bou...

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• Text: ...troops near where Scott points at o Points at Worms, captured 17 thousand there o Scott traces route further o Discovered “slave laborers” for the first time, but not surprised (1:39:00)  Worms: o One night a German convoy went alongside their position, Americans opened fire and kill...

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• Text: ...plies and a sign that said, "Poland, or Bust!" -At the aluminum factory in Dortmund there were thousands of Polish slave laborers -Found an old mansion and surrounded it -Without firing a shot sixteen German soldiers came out and surrendered -Oldest of the group was sixty years ol...

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• Text: ... did that because a lot of young guys like me went to Germany and they never came back. Interviewer: Yeah. Because they were slave laborers. Veteran: Slave laborer, exactly. Interviewer: And they were not treated well or fed well. Veteran: Oh yes, yeah. Interviewer: Yeah. And okay,...

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• Text: ...umanity and hospitality -Passed through Berlin en route to Stalag Luft IV -It was a shell of a city that was kept running by slave labor -He had no doubt that the Allies would be victorious -Confident that the Allies would out produce the Germans -Berlin had been devastated by bombing raids...

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• Text: ... things, building pill boxes and building roads and that type of thing. Interviewer: Well and the Germans also used a lot of slave laborers from other European countries. Right. Interviewer: So, and then there were the concentration camps where they had Jews and… Concentration camps, Po...

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• Text: ...ders who were the descendants of later immigrants like John F. Kennedy and Michael Dukakis. The New Englanders may have been slave traders in the colonies, but in time their stern morality led them to lead America's antislavery movement-and, another instance that would have surprised t...

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• Text: ...mall section; the men knew that the other divisions were experiencing the exact same conditions (01:07:54:00) Ochs did see a slave labor camp and has pictures of rows of dead bodies lying on the ground (01:08:15:00) o There was a small town near the camp and the soldiers made the residents ...

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• Text: ...y minute of it, but at least he got something to eat. As far as my impression of the Korean people, [they] were treated like slaves and dirty dogs, even into this time period. This is a typical Korean family. (1:12:30). Interviewer: “A woman carrying things on her head and the man with th...

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• Text: ...s indebted, Mamasan takes her ID card and she can't go out onto the streets and so she's pretty much an indentured slave right there. So, a GI comes along and meets her in the bar and they start seeing each other and before you know it, he pays off Mamasan and buys her salvation a...

Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Donald Brazones enlisted into the Army Air Corps at the age of 18 in retaliation to the Japanese's bombing of Pearl Harbor. Brazones trained to be a navigator and was sent to England to fly missions over Europe. On Brazones' 18th mission, he was shot down and captured by German Officers. His interview is a detailed recollection of his time in the service, especially his memories from the day he was shot down, and his subsequent capture, imprisonment and release from captivity.

Raymond Hines was born on April 6, 1944 in Wellford, South Carolina, and graduated high school in 1962. Hines received his draft notice in 1965 and chose to enlist in the Army. He completed Basic Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, where he became a Morse Intercept Operator. He also trained in Artillery OCS at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, before transferring to Fort Bliss, Texas, as part of the Air Defense for only two months before being transferred to Wurzburg Germany. From Germany, Hines was deployed to Vietnam with the 2nd of the 319th as a Fire Direction Officer and proceeded to report to the Bravo Battery at Firebase Bastogne. He saw heavy combat with this unit. While in Vietnam, Hines also worked as an assistant S-3 fireman, and a Liaison Officer for the 2nd of the 506 at Fire Base Ripcord. After taking some additional advanced artillery courses, he deployed to Nuremberg Germany with the 3rd of the 70th House Artillery before transferring to the 7th Corps Artillery as a Nuclear Release Authentication System Officer. He would later return to Europe after recieveing his veterinarian degree in the United States to care for military service animals.

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• Text: ...They called it Special Operations K-Pool Platoon and we also–– and we had our name for it. We called it the “slaves on call platoon.” It seems like we had a lot of extra duty because we were no longer affiliated with a company. We were a detachment, so were really, like, kind of, on...