Overview
- Interview Summary
- Arthur Spangler describes his experiences as an optician in the United States Army Air Corps, attached to General Patton's Third Army during World War II, and his memories of the Buchenwald concentration camp, which he visited on May 9th, 1945.
- Interviewee
- Arthur Spangler
- Interviewer
- R. M. Palmer
- Date
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interview:
2006 January-2006 March
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 DVD.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camp inmates--Germany. Opticians. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States. Men--Personal narratives. Medical personnel
- Geographic Name
- Germany. United States.
- Personal Name
- Spangler, Arthur.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- R. Martin Palmer donated this oral history to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 4, 2007. R. Martin Palmer conducted the interview in January and March of 2006.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:32:56
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518798
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