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Oral history interview with Erich Pichler

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.402.3 | RG Number: RG-50.654.0003

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    Oral history interview with Erich Pichler

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    Interview Summary
    Erich Pichler, born in 1926 in St. Leonard, South Tyrol, Italy, discusses deserting the German Army with his older brother Karl and joining the local police; his arrest by Sudtirole Ordung Dienst (SUD) police, trial, and sentence to 11 years in prison with Karl; serving time in a criminal barrack at Dachau concentration camp in November 1944; witnessing SS guards humiliating prisoners who attempted to escape; his transport with Karl to an internment camp in Mosbach; working in several factories; the diversity of the population at Mosbach, including German, Croatian, Polish, and Norwegian prisoners; the composition of the guard at Mosbach, which included Hungarian SS and some local policeman; the evacuation of the camp to Dachau; harsh living conditions, overpopulation, and lack of food in Dachau; seeing soldiers loading bodies onto trucks; the arrival of American forces; being imprisoned by the Americans along with the camp’s guards because he wasn’t wearing a prison uniform; the threat of being executed as a war criminal; his time in the camp in Fusstehfeldbruck; and his release in August 1945.
    Interviewee
    Erich Pichler
    Date
    interview:  2009 December 06
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 09:21:32
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