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- Text: 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 • The area was very muddy, hot, rainy, an filled with lots of trees and kangaroos • John
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- Text: • 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 enough food each day • They later had to located where the Russians were from
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- Text: south of Japan. Iwo is but 2~ miles wide at its widest. It is about five miles long. Less than 8 square miles and with but one building above ground. Yet, it was "home" to over 22,000 Japanese soldiers and Korean slave-laborers who built the islands
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- Description: 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 Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in September 1946.
- Text: in lice -Had a special medical unit to delouse them -Let them leave and go to the rear, 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
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- Text: soldiers from all kinds of nations fighting 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
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- Text: onto the 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
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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
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- Text: Germany to Poland with a horse and wagon -Gave them supplies 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
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- Text: . And they were used on the working 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
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- Text: heard in our own time even from New Englanders 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