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

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.