Lisa O. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Lisa O., a non-Jew, who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922. She recalls street fights between brown shirts and communists; playing with Jewish children; improved conditions after Hitler came to power; participating in the opening ceremony for the 1936 Olympics; saying goodbye to their Jewish doctor in 1938 when he emigrated; synagogue and book burnings; her mother's work with Martin Niemo?ller; being told Dachau was for those who wanted to harm the Reich; observing a sign forbidding Jews when vacationing in Baden-Baden; training as a teletypist in Giessen; volunteering to serve in Russia in exchange for a leave when her brother and brother-in-law were killed in the war; observing en route a train of Jewish deportees and the Warsaw ghetto (from outside); her fiance? arranging her transfer to Berlin; shootings and beatings after the July 20, 1944 Hitler assassination attempt; transfer to Weisbaden; arrest while escaping to Switzerland with her fiance? (he was involved in resistance, unbeknownst to her); release after one month; her fiance?'s escape (they hid him until war's end); rape by Soviet troops despite her pregnancy; and shock and disbelief upon being informed of the concentration camps and extermination of Jews. Ms. O. believes many Germans were not Nazi supporters.

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