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Oral history interview with Clarence Brockman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.182 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0579

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    Oral history interview with Clarence Brockman

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    Interview Summary
    Clarence Harvey Brockman, born June 26, 1920, discusses growing up in Midway, PA; his father’s work on the railroad; being drafted into the army on July 23, 1942, joining the Third Army 80th infantry division 317th Head Quarters Company; training in Camp Forest, TN, Camp Philips, KS, and Yuma, AZ; his job as a wireman in the army; going to England then France; taking a Polish prisoner his first day of combat; crossing the Moselle River; fighting in the Battle of the Bulge; seeing President Roosevelt who visited his training camp during the war; seeing his first concentration camp prisoners, having no prior knowledge of the camps; finding a slave labor camp; his memories of first entering Buchenwald; the story of a German Captain who beat up a woman and tried to pass as a Private; how he and his fellow American soldiers shot this German Captain; taking over German civilians’ houses; the killing of a German civilian woman; befriending a young Austrian girl with whom he kept in contact and visited later in life; his feelings for the German people; his brother’s death two days after the war ended; speaking publically after the war; his job in the coal industry; meeting and marrying his wife; and receiving the Good Conduct Medal.
    Interviewee
    Clarence Brockman
    Interviewer
    Mr. Stephen A. Mize
    Date
    interview:  2010 August 13

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    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Clarence Brockman on August 13, 2010. The interview was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 2010.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:41
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