Overview
- Interview Summary
- Dieter Protsch, born April 29, 1932 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his childhood in Nazi Germany; his experience during World War II as a member of the Hitler Youth; his parents’ association with the Nazi Party and relationship with Joseph Goebbels; receiving military training in the Hitler Youth and using his training against Soviets troops when he was 13 years old; being wounded by shrapnel from a grenade; being held by the Russians as a prisoner of war; his account of what he believes happened to Hitler after the war; his emigration from postwar Germany to the United States; his military career; and retiring as a Major from the US Army.
- Interviewee
- Dieter Protsch
- Date
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interview:
2011
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eric Leviton
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Oral histories.
- Extent
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digital file : MP3.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Military education--Germany. Prisoners of war--Germany. Prisoner-of-war camps--Soviet Union. World War, 1939-1945--Children--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Medical care. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Juvenile. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Berlin (Germany) United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Protsch, Dieter. Goebbels, Joseph, 1897-1945.
- Corporate Name
- Hitler Youth United States. Army
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Eric Leviton donated a copy of his 2011 interview with Retired U.S. Army Major Dieter Protsch to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Oral History Branch in April 2012. The interview was conducted for a semester project at Hood College in Frederick, MD.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:27:53
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