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Theodore P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-820) interviewed by John Tiebout and Mark Jacobs,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-820

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Theodore P., who served in the United States 3rd Army. He recounts being trained to interrogate German POWs; deployment to Europe in October 1944; moving through France; assignment to the 261st regiment; front line interrogations in Germany; entering Ohrdruf hours after liberation; corpses stacked “like wood”; a prisoner showing him a mass killing site; shock at the condition of the prisoners and learning of their experiences; local Germans denying knowledge of the camp; traveling to Mauthausen weeks after its liberation; speaking with the few remaining survivors and with an imprisoned guard, who claimed he was just following orders; screening German POWs for war criminals; and an American officer executing a German soldier during interrogations in Regensburg.
Author/Creator: P., Theodore, 1921-
Published: Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1986
Interview Date: September 6, 1986.
Locale: United States
Regensburg (Germany)
Cite As: Theodore P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-820). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Tiebout, John, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 1 copy: 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 1 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, American. United States--Armed Forces--Europe. Regensburg (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) P., Theodore,--1921- United States.--Army.--Infantry Regiment, 261st. Ohrdruf (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4294399
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4294399

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