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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
![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 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
![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: 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
![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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- Description: 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 was decommissioned
- Text: 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 Japanese soldiers and Chinese laborers -Soldiers were happy
![Oosterbaan, George (Interview outline and video), 2015 Oosterbaan, George (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/b36ea683ffe0ff18ddc3b9c0e524353a.jpg)
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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
![Butt, Jimmy L (Interview outline and video), 2017 Butt, Jimmy L (Interview outline and video), 2017](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/910c404055ad9cc6aba776fa8261b45f.jpg)
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- Text: arrived and Bradley got the go ahead from Eisenhower 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
![Buteyn, Donald (Interview outline and video), 2008 Buteyn, Donald (Interview outline and video), 2008](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/1bac57a49cc290f3ae24df22bab0f995.jpg)
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- Text: up a new radio for the plain • In Greece Germans were shooting at them on the runway • 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
![Marx, Leon (Interview outline and video), 2007 Marx, Leon (Interview outline and video), 2007](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/d02f5b66adb97f6728206c5ed41250ce.jpg)
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- Text: because everyone eighteen years or older had to go to Germany to work as a slave laborer and work in German factories. IG Farben, which is a very well-known German company, employed a lot of those folks, and they were not treated the best. And one time
![Bauma, Gerard (Interview transcript and video), 2011 Bauma, Gerard (Interview transcript and video), 2011](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/923a97c8f6b14e504a3f822c5ab6b95c.jpg)
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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
![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: 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
![King, Keith C (Interview outline and video), 2015 King, Keith C (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/472883a458b49796c3c16213ef0f4cd2.jpg)
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- Text: him back to Santo Tomas (00:27:47) The Fate of His Father -On January 31, 1945, U.S. Rangers and Filipino 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
![Stevens, Lee (Interview outline and video), 2017 Stevens, Lee (Interview outline and video), 2017](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/0ced328f5b7a03516b57e6cb2a5e2a22.jpg)