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Oral history interview with Klaus-Christoph Marloh

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.41 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0041

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    Oral history interview with Klaus-Christoph Marloh

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Klaus-Christoph Marloh, born in 1923 in Hamburg, Germany, describes his father’s support for National Socialism; attending a boarding school in Plön, Germany, which became a Nazi affiliated institution; moving to Celle, Germany in 1939; leaving the Hitler Youth and joining the local SS in 1939; participating in searches at night for escaped prisoners and army deserters, and punishing Polish slave laborers in surrounding villages; volunteering for the military in 1941 and becoming a cadet officer in the navy; serving on a submarine until 1944; experiencing the bombing of Hamburg; witnessing the sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff by a Soviet submarine; serving on a second submarine in 1945; surrendering to the British Army in 1945 in Norway; his internment as a prisoner of war; his return to his home in Berleburg, Germany in 1945; the arrest and internment of his father by the British forces; avoiding arrest and internment by concealing his past activities with the SS and Jungvolk; and his life after the war, including his work helping the relatives of imprisoned Nazi war criminals.
    Interviewee
    Klaus-Christoph Marloh
    Interviewer
    Annette Leo
    Date
    interview:  2004 March 23
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Extent
    2 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
    Marloh, Klaus-Christoph.

    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 Klaus-Christoph Marloh in Germany, on March 23, 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 08:53:17
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