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Oral history interview with Norman Maynard Clark

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.4 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0004

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    Oral history interview with Norman Maynard Clark

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Norman Maynard Clark describes being a correspondent with the News Chronicle in North Africa from 1941 to 1943; being sent to North Africa in November 1941; being transferred to the front-line at Agedabia, Libya; his escape from the Afrika Korps attack at Benghazi, Libya in January 1942; his arrest by Brigadier John Crystall for mixing with New Zealand other ranks in a Cairo bar on December 24, 1941; his period of inactivity on the Gazala Line from January 1942 to May 1942; why German attack at Bir Hakheim should not have been a surprise; the nature of fighting at The Cauldron; his opinion of Free French stand at Bir Hakheim; his impressions of General Claude Auchinleck; the cooperation he received from army; the preparations for the Battle of El Alamein in 1942; patrolling with the South African armored car squadron in the Qattara Depression; the South African 1st Division; his reaction to the sight of destroyed German tanks at Alam Halfa in September 1942; a briefing received from General Harold Alexander; going west with Axis forces in November 1942; his attitude to life in the desert and the morale of 8th Army; meeting General Montgomery; being a correspondent with the News Chronicle in Italy in 1944; conditions at Monte Cassino in January 1944; covering the Anzio landings in January 1944; first German prisoners at Anzio and the nature of the fighting; Churchill’s attempt to blame war correspondents for rumors of withdrawal at Anzio in February 1944; the attempt of Wynford Vaughan Thomas to record nightingale at Anzio; being a correspondent with the News Chronicle in northwest Europe from 1944 to 1945; landing in Saint-Lô, France with Cornelius Ryan; being the first to enter Mont St Michel; encountering drunken Ernest Hemingway; covering the pursuit of Germans to Le Mans and Falaise Gap; General George Patton’s explanation for why Falaise Gap was not closed and Patton’s opinion of the French forces’ contribution to the pursuit of Germans; entering Paris, France August 1944; the war correspondent’s base at Hotel Scribes; the treatment of collaborators in Paris; Vichy Milice opening fire at Hotel Crion in August 1944; being with American forces on German territory in September 1944; the degree of threat from German forces during the Battle of Bulge in December 1944; the capture of a German senior officer in his staff car in spring 1945; the liberation Ohrdref, Buchenwald, and Edenwald concentration camps; the initial problems upon contact with Russians in May 1945 in Bohemia; meeting with Norman Baillie Stewart in his cell in Altausee, Austria in May 1945; how war correspondents operate; his narrow escape from being killed by a German soldier in Trier, Germany in 1945; his visit to Hitler’s bunker in Berlin, Germany in June 1945; being a correspondent at the Nuremberg War Trials in Nuremberg, Germany from 1945 to 1946; the key role of Maxwell Fyfe as cross examiner; the quality of judges; the impressions made by Albert Speer; the organization of executions; the suicide of Hermann Goering; and the demeanor of Rudolf Hess.
    Interviewee
    Norman M. Clarke
    Date
    interview:  1991 December 12

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (90 min.).

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Permission to copy and/or use recordings in any production must be granted by the Imperial War Museums.

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    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    Imperial War Museum
    Provenance
    The interview was conducted by the Imperial War Museum as part of their retrospective oral history interview program. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired a copy of the interview with Norman Maynard Clarke from the Imperial War Museum in February 1995.
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