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| Witnesses to War: The Personal Stories |
| The eyewitnesses teach what the books can't. We realize some readers may be offended by personal accounts from German soldiers, but their experiences, like those of noncombatants, are nevertheless part of the history and human perspective of WWII. Thank you for sharing your experiences. |
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| Otto Hiegel: An eyewitness to Hitler's 1939 Visit in Lambsborn to inspect the Westwall |
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| Gerda (Neu) Heintz: When the Wehrmacht Came to Baumholder: The Loss of a Village and a Childhood |
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| Herbert Grimm: How a Wounded Afrika Korp Paratrooper and US POW became Baumholder's link to the US Forces |
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| Gale Garman: A 29th Infantry DDay vet who inadvertently joined the second wave on Omaha Beach when his DUKW was swamped offshore. He remembers a "worms-eye view" of the beach. |
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| Frank Garret: A 99th Infantry Division veteran who became a POW of Kampfgruppe Peiper in the Northern Shoulder 17 Dec 1944. He hid captured German medals in the wooden floor of a Gasthaus in Honsfeld - are they still there?? |
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| Al Goldstein: A POW who survived capture by the 1st SS Panzer Regiment. Taken prisoner 17 Dec 1944 as Peiper's tanks moved toward Malmedy |
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| Ted Paluch: One of 56 survivors of the Malmedy Massacre 17 Dec 1944. About 150 members of a US convoy were surprised by a German SS tank column and herded into a Belgian field. Eightyfive were gunned down in place but some, like Mr. Paluch, escaped to tell the story. |
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| George Daubenfeld: A Luxembourger who spent the fall of 1944 hanging out with his new best friends: the American GIs in Luxembourg City. He's never lost his US connections and remains a faithful friend and dealer of WWII militaria, "Helmet George". |
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| Dr Harland Hermann: A young Army doctor for the 442nd Infantry in Italy. His combat unit of mostly Japanese/American soldiers was the most highly decorated unit of WWII. The psychological effect of combat has been a lifelong interest of Dr. Hermann. |
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| Hermann Klink: An Afrika Korp signalman who trained at Baumholder and became a POW in North Africa. He spent 3 years as a POW in the USA, and had an up-close-and-personal encounter with Rommel. |
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