Theodore P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Theodore P., who served in the United States 3rd Army. He recounts being trained to interrogate German POWs; deployment to Europe in October 1944; moving through France; assignment to the 261st regiment; front line interrogations in Germany; entering Ohrdruf hours after liberation; corpses stacked "like wood"; a prisoner showing him a mass killing site; shock at the condition of the prisoners and learning of their experiences; local Germans denying knowledge of the camp; traveling to Mauthausen weeks after its liberation; speaking with the few remaining survivors and with an imprisoned guard, who claimed he was just following orders; screening German POWs for war criminals; and an American officer executing a German soldier during interrogations in Regensburg.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- P., Theodore, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- United States. -- Army. -- Infantry Regiment, 261st.
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, American.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
Places
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Europe.
- Regensburg (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat