European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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was something the officers could not understand.
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Later on, towards the end, they got some different views.
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After they got to know:
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about the concentration camps, what happened to the people there,
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the way they were murdered there, and disposed off.
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Auschwitz was only then liberated by the Soviet army, the Red Army.
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That was when the exchange happened and
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they at least started to realise
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that there were people who were fighting against `their country´, as they said.
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Later on I was taken back to Fort Devons, where I witnessed the end of the war.
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There we had the magazine ‘German-American’
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which was edited by immigrated union men and political immigrants.
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It was in German and English.
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It was delivered into our camp. Before, in MacCain, it didn’t come into the camp.
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But towards the end of the war many things changed.
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You could buy this magazine.
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We also had contact to the issuers, illegal ones,
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because the commands were working in the motor pool,
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where, again, where progressive Americans helped us with the information.
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Anyway, some political and cultural life started.
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