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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: ...After the war he stayed with crew of LST 720 and sailed 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 wa...
- Text: ...t it would take the men longer to get discharged and get home -Stayed in the western Pacific 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 Japa...
![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: ...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: ...ower 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 sent south from Remagen to surround large numbers of Germans, who then surrendered t...
![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: ... • 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 women for less than $50 (42:00) POWs • In Russia they were supposed to get Americans who had been in prison camps ...
![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: ...They could pick you up on the street like they did me because I was supposed to work as a slave laborer in Germany. Interviewer: “Now how soon did they start to move people out of the Netherlands as slave laborers? Was that later in the war, or were they—” No, that was a bit ...
![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: ...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: ...ino 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 in New Bilibid Prison in Manila -Lee was allowed to go see his father through a prison window -From New Bilibid he was placed on a ship bou...
![Stevens, Lee (Interview outline and video), 2017 Stevens, Lee (Interview outline and video), 2017](https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/square_thumbnails/0ced328f5b7a03516b57e6cb2a5e2a22.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)