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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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- 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...
![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: ...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: ... 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...
![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: ...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: ...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...
![Zylstra, David B (Interview outline and video), 2015 Zylstra, David B (Interview outline and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/ac7521d7917840d0b1e0805b3780f016.jpg)
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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...
![Dudas, William (2 of 2, Interview transcript and video), 2015 Dudas, William (2 of 2, Interview transcript and video), 2015](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/221c95d3022d181027a86bce0e0bcda0.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)
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.
![Hines, Raymond (2 of 2, Interview transcript and video), 2019 Hines, Raymond (2 of 2, Interview transcript and video), 2019](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/b6848d882890e7fe158bdaf32be7e144.jpg)