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Oral history interview with Adalbert Lallier

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2008.62 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0525

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    Oral history interview with Adalbert Lallier

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Adalbert Lallier, born on May 7, 1925 in Botos, Hungary (present day Botoš, Serbia), describes his family and privileged childhood; the death of his mother when he was five years old; his family losing some of their factories during the Great Depression; the Nazi invasion in 1941 and immediately seeing the effects of the invasion on the local Jewish population; witnessing antisemitism among the Hungarian peasantry; his memories of the 1936 Olympics; his draft into the German Army on June 1, 1942; fighting Titoists and partisans in the Balkans at the end of 1944; attending officers' school; cleaning up after the bombing of Nuremberg; seeing a concentration camp for the first time in 1945; the ideological training through which he had to go as a member of the German Army; his capture by British soldiers; his father’s participation in the Nazi war crimes trials after the war; getting married in 1948 and then having two children; immigrating to Canada in October 1951 and finding a job working with an international refugee organization; and his reflections on his participation in the war on the side of the Germans.
    Interviewee
    Adalbert Lallier
    Interviewer
    Ringelheim, Dr. Joan
    Date
    interview:  2008 April 24
    Credit Line
    Interview funded by a grant from the Lerner Family Foundation.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    10 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Lallier, Adalbert, 1925-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Adalbert Lallier in Mansonville, Quebec on April 24, 2008. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in May 2008.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:22
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