European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

We were on a ship to travel onwards from the Mediterranean Sea.

But we came back and later on we were handed over to the Americans.

We travelled to Casablanca, through Morocco, by train.

Casablanca is situated quite low down.

The American army did not treat us any better.

I remembered much later:

officers were probably not able to understand these things in their own awareness;

that soldiers who had been fighting in the Hitler-army were now turning against it.

This problem of the controversy fascism against antifascism

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’