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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 ...
![Tibbe, John (Interview outline and video), 2008 Tibbe, John (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/13caac7d44b2333995dacfdda20cbf15.jpg)
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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 ...
![Pickens, Lavont A. (Interview outline and video), 2003 Pickens, Lavont A. (Interview outline and video), 2003](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/5ab45aa172661ac9205705e4c9dde530.jpg)
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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?"
![Kalafut, Adolph (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2008 Kalafut, Adolph (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/948877c8bd3a1d4881c6064da76d5dec.jpg)
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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...
![Charles, Wayne (Interview outline and video), 2013 Charles, Wayne (Interview outline and video), 2013](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/efbe935243dba1254ba1345bd7ce65d6.jpg)
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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...
![Scott, Francis (Interview outline and video), 2008 Scott, Francis (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/c62be0427d4ffbf98144b8fea8b70cbd.jpg)
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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...
![Miles, Wendell A. (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2007 Miles, Wendell A. (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/7389406afcf4e25836ef6915219f9e05.jpg)
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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 ...
![Ochs, James (Interview outline and video), 2010 Ochs, James (Interview outline and video), 2010](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/2e5efb0959e5499a3c01ca36dcab811b.jpg)