The worm in the apple
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Creator(s)
- Sigurd Askevold
Biographical History
In 1937, Sigurd Askevold (Kassel, Germany, 1917 - ) was drafted into the Reichsarbeitsdienst and served in the Wehrmacht
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The typescript copy of the manuscript (1970) was received in Sep 1993 with the holdings of the "Holocaust Library"; it was officially donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Mr. Askevold on 14 Oct 1993.
Scope and Content
This memoir of the war period contains comments about the Nazi persecution of German Jews and the Nazi persecution and incarceration of political opponents; a description of his father's immigration to Norway; Askevold's military service in the Reichsarbeitsdienst and his activities in the German military during the incorporation of Austria and the Sudetenland into the Greater Reich and the German invasions and occupations of Poland, France, and the Soviet Union, in addition to the time he served as a prisoner of war.
People
- Askevold, Sigurd.
Corporate Bodies
- Germany. Reichsarbeitsdienst
Subjects
- Norway.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--Men authors.
- Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Prisoners of war.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938.
- Refugees.
- Political persecution.
- Concentration camps.
- Soldiers' writings.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.