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Oral history interview with Henry Lauth

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.46 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0046

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    Oral history interview with Henry Lauth

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Henri Francois Claude Lauth describes growing up in the Toulouse area of France; his family and education; being wounded while he was in the French Army in 1940; being part of the French Resistance around Toulouse from 1940 to 1943; joining a resistance unit; his intelligence gathering role; being imprisoned by the Gestapo in France from July to October 1943; reasons for his arrest; treatment by Gestapo; being sent to Buchenwald in 1943; the train journey; arriving at the camp; German Communist control; selection of inmates to go to Dora and being sent there in October 1943; living conditions during the building of the camp; the shooting of an inmate attempting to obtain a drink of water; camp rations; reasons for not being selected for extermination in the spring of 1944; the discovery of a German agent in the camp; sabotaging V1s at Dora; being arrested by the SS and interrogated; reciting poetry with the mistress of the Gestapo head whilst under interrogation; being sentenced to death and the delay of his execution; the confinement in a bunker and the execution of German Communist inmates; traveling by train to Bergen-Belsen in April 1944; liberation by British troops of Bergen-Belsen; and the interrogation of Josef Kramer, commandant of Bergen-Belsen.
    Interviewee
    Henry Lauth
    Date
    interview:  1989 June 18

    Physical Details

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

    Rights & Restrictions

    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.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Lauth, Henry.

    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 Henry Lauth from the Imperial War Museum in February 1995.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:17:32
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