Oral history interview with Georg Diers
Extent and Medium
5 videocassettes (MiniDV),
4 sound cassettes (90 min.),
Creator(s)
- Rosalyn Manowitz
Biographical History
This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, in association with the Institut fuer Geschichte und Biographie der Fernuniversitaet Hagen, coordinated the interview with Georg Diers in Germany, on July 6, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in December 2004.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Rosalyn Manowitz
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
- Goebbels, Joseph, 1897-1945.
- Georg Diers
- Diers, Georg.
Corporate Bodies
- Hitler Youth
- Waffen-SS
Subjects
- Prisoner-of-war camps--Soviet Union.
- Germany
- Vienna (Austria)
- Holocaust denial--Germany.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- War crime trials--Soviet Union.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Grozny (Russia)
- Germany.
- Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Antisemitism.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Forced labor--Soviet Union.
- Veterans -- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Moscow (Russia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Wiefelstede (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.
Genre
- Oral History