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- Text: ...umanity and hospitality -Passed through Berlin en route to Stalag Luft IV -It was a shell of a city that was kept running by slave labor -He had no doubt that the Allies would be victorious -Confident that the Allies would out produce the Germans -Berlin had been devastated by bombing raids...
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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 ...
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.
