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Oral history interview with John E. Dolibois

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2000.95 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0408

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    Oral history interview with John E. Dolibois

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    Interview Summary
    John E. Dolibois, born on December 4, 1918 in Luxembourg, describes growing up as the youngest of eight children and without a mother; his immigration to Ohio in June 1931; his graduation from Miami University and marriage to Winifred Englehart in 1942; being drafted November 13, 1942; starting a course in December 1943 to become an interrogator for prisoners of war; training at Camp Ritchie in Maryland; arriving in Revin, France, where he worked for the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces; arriving in Dachau on April 30, 1945; his assignment to the Central Continental Prisoner of War Enclosure no. 32 in the Palace Hotel in Mondorf, Luxembourg, where he interrogated Nazi prisoners of war; working with 51 prisoners including Hermann Goering, Julius Streicher, and Robert Ley; going to the International War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg, Germany, where he acted as the interpreter for the prison psychiatrist, put together a scrapbook of autographs and photos of high-ranking Nazis for General Eisenhower, and looked out for the welfare of the Nazi prisoners; his promotion to captain in January 1946; his participation in a project to get the “German viewpoint” of the Holocaust; returning to New York in May 1946; serving as the Vice President for University Relations at Miami University from 1967 until 1981; and serving as the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1981 to 1985.
    Interviewee
    John Dolibois
    Interviewer
    Ringelheim, Dr. Joan
    Date
    interview:  2000 May 11

    Physical Details

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

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The interview with John E. Dolibois was conducted by Joan Ringelheim, Director of Oral History, on May 11, 2000, in Arlington, Va. The tapes of the interview were received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on May 18, 2000.
    Funding Note
    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 08:02:41
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