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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
Scott, Francis (Interview outline and video), 2008

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  • Text: heard in our own time even from New Englanders 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
Miles, Wendell A. (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2007

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  • Text: ’ was assigned to only a small 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
Ochs, James (Interview outline and video), 2010
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.
Brazones, Donald L. (Interview transcript and video, 1 of 2), 2009
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings dating from 1943 to 1945 detailing events of World War II, and in particular the activities of the 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd (Red Arrow) Division. Many articles were clipped from the Grand Rapids Herald and Grand Rapids Press newspapers.
World War II Red Arrow Division Scrapbook