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was something the officers could not understand.

Later on, towards the end, they got some different views.

After they got to know:

about the concentration camps, what happened to the people there,

the way they were murdered there, and disposed off.

Auschwitz was only then liberated by the Soviet army, the Red Army.

That was when the exchange happened and

they at least started to realise

that there were people who were fighting against `their country´, as they said.

Later on I was taken back to Fort Devons, where I witnessed the end of the war.

There we had the magazine ‘German-American’

which was edited by immigrated union men and political immigrants.

It was in German and English.

It was delivered into our camp. Before, in MacCain, it didn’t come into the camp.

But towards the end of the war many things changed.

You could buy this magazine.

We also had contact to the issuers, illegal ones,

because the commands were working in the motor pool,

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

Anyway, some political and cultural life started.