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Oral history interview with Robert Moroder

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.402.9 | RG Number: RG-50.654.0009

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    Oral history interview with Robert Moroder

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Robert Moroder, born in 1926, discusses his family’s decision to stay in South Tyrol, Italy as Dableiber during the South Tyrol Option Agreement in 1939; discrimination against his family from members of the Nazi Party and those who chose to immigrate to Nazi Germany (the Optanten); the beating of Italian Fascist leaders in St. Ulrich by local Nazis following the Wehrmacht takeover in September 1943; the imprisonment of five prominent Dableiber from Val Gardena in 1943; his father’s imprisonment in Klausen; a German captain who saved the five Dableiber from deportation to a concentration camp; an attack on his house by local Nazis belonging to Südtiroler Ordnungsdienst (SOD); his mother’s death; being drafted into the Polizeiregiment Schlanders; being sent to Northern Italy to an SS commando unit in Feltre and Belluno; members of the Nazi party from Vinschgau Valley who belonged to the unit; the power of the local mayor Josef Anton (Gasthof Adlerwirt) in drafting people from the village, particularly Dableibers, into the army; his acquaintance with Dominik Moroder who was part of the SS headquarters in Florence in 1943-44 and was responsible for the deportation of Jews and killing and torture of partisans; the Italian police force’s (Carabinieri) search for Dominik Moroder who was hiding in the Val Gardena in South Tyrol; and seeing Dominik Moroder freely walk into the village in 1952.
    Interviewee
    Robert Moroder
    Interviewer
    Gerald Steinacher
    Date
    interview:  2011 April 09
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Extent
    1 videocassette (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 09:21:34
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