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Oral history interview with Günter Halm

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.37 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0037

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    Oral history interview with Günter Halm

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Günter Halm, born in 1922 in Elze, Germany, describes his family background and childhood; his membership in the Deutsche Jungvolk and the Hitler Youth; his apprenticeship as a machinist in 1939; passing his examination as a schlosser geselle (journeyman) in 1941; volunteering for the tank grenadiers and joining them in 1942; receiving decorations for his performance in a battle with the British; taking an officer course in 1943 and 1944; his promotion to lieutenant; his deployment to France in 1944 to fight the D-Day invasion; his capture in August 1944 by American soldiers; being brought to the United States where he was held in a camp near Alpha, Oklahoma; being brought to La Motte to work in 1945; his release and return home in 1946; finding his parents alive; and his life after the war.
    Interviewee
    Günter Halm
    Interviewer
    Rosalyn Manowitz
    Date
    interview:  2004 April 28
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Extent
    3 sound cassettes (90 min.).

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Halm, Günter.

    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 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, in association with the Institut fuer Geschichte und Biographie der Fernuniversitaet Hagen, coordinated the interview with Günter Halm in Germany, on April 28, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in December 2004.
    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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:53:16
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