European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

where, again, where progressive Americans helped us with the information.

Anyway, some political and cultural life started.

The Americans filmed ‘Buchenwald’,

the heaps of dead bodies they found and the circumstances.

These films were shown in the USA and then all the prisoners of war had to watch these films.

Now to my release: We were transported to Belgium.

There the conditions were the same as in Aliceville, where we were taken in the first prison camp.

Just before I was released the documents came.

And there an associate, Fritz Fiedkau, was declared (in the documents) to be an SS-man.

So, in the camp, where he had been before they changed his documents in the assessment

they made the antifascist into an SS-man.

And an SS-man had already gone home as an antifascist!

I did report that later on.

We went over to Munsterlager which had the same pattern;

corporals, sergeants and so on, they were in command there.

“Don’t let yourself get released towards the east!”

In October 1946 I got on a transport to West-Berlin.

This is how I got home from war captivity.

My parents lived somewhere else, as they had been bombed out.

And now the new life began after all these incidents that you experienced over the years.