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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: ... 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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