Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of C. Brooks P., who was born in Bergenfield, New Jersey in 1912. He describes attending graduate school in Berlin in 1936; leaving school to work for the New York Times; establishing contacts with Rabbi Leo Baeck; witnessing Kristallnacht and German bombardment of Warsaw; meeting Adolf Hitler near Warsaw; witnessing German bombing of Rotterdam; marriage to an American in Berlin in 1940; delivering a letter to Budapest for Richard C. Hottelet, which may have involved espionage; interviewing Baldur von Schirach when writing about the Hitler Youth; some Nazi censorship of this article; returning to the United States in fall 1941; working at the New York Times Washington bureau; enlisting and serving in the Pacific; returning after being wounded; recruitment by Allen Dulles for intelligence work in Bern, Switzerland; and various careers after the war. Mr. P. reflects upon the futility of preventing genocide since the Armenian and Jewish experiences seem to have no impact on the Balkans presently.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Musuem of Jewish Heritage, 1994
- Interview Date
- March 2, 1994.
- Locale
- United States
Bergenfield (N.J.)
Bern (Switzerland) - Cite As
- C. Brooks P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2936). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 32 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Crystal Night, 1938.
Antisemitism Prewar. - Subjects
- New York times. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, American. Intelligence service--United States. Kristallnacht, 1938. Bergenfield (N.J.) Bern (Switzerland) Oral histories (document genres) Dulles, Allen,--1893-1969. P., C. Brooks,--1912- Baeck, Leo,--1873-1956. Schirach, Baldur von,--1907-1974. Hottelet, Richard C. Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945. Hitler-Jugend.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4289323
- Record last modified:
- 2020-04-28 10:59:00
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