Lothar P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Lothar P., an ethnic German and Roman Catholic, who was born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia in 1932. He recalls living in Vratislavice; attending a German school; his father's exemption from military service due to his essential job; a German child whose mother was in the SS at Auschwitz living with them; overhearing a conversation between the SS woman and her friend expressing fear of retribution for what they were doing; his father expressing his shame to be German after hearing what was happening; German retreat; Allied bombardments; Soviet troops looting and raping; penalties and forced relocations of ethnic Germans; working to help support his family; encountering Jewish concentration camp survivors; working as a truck driver; marriage to a German woman; and his leadership of the local organization of ethnic Germans. Mr. P. expresses regrets for German wrongs.
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., Lothar, -- 1932-
Subjects
- Bystanders.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Rape.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German.
- Germans -- Czech Republic -- Sudetenland -- History.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Vratislavice nad Nisou (Czech Republic)
- Liberec (Czech Republic)
- Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat