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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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  • Description: 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 Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in September 1946.
  • Text: in lice -Had a special medical unit to delouse them -Let them leave and go to the rear, 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
Butt, Jimmy L (Interview outline and video), 2017

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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: onto the 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
King, Keith C (Interview outline and video), 2015

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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: Germany to Poland with a horse and wagon -Gave them supplies 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
Zylstra, David B (Interview outline and video), 2015

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  • Text: . And they were used on the working 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
Dudas, William (2 of 2, Interview transcript and video), 2015

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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
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