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Walter Meyer can be found in the collections archive of the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Walter Meyer RG 50 030 0371 02 04
Record Type:
Oral History
Interview Summary:
Walter Meyer, born on May 31, 1926 in
Kassel, Germany, describes growing up as a
Catholic in a diverse religious community; his experiences during
Kristallnacht; joining the
Hitler Youth in
1940 but then deciding to organize another group to oppose the Hitler Youth; his recruitment into a military academy, to which his father did not allow him to go; assisting
French prisoners of war in 1943 until the
Gestapo caught him and placed him in a
Düsseldorf prison; his transfer to a prison near
Frankfurt, where he remained until the spring of
1944 when the prison director recommended him for the army
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Date:
1996 August 02 (interview)
RG
Number:
RG-50.030*0371
Accession Number:
1996.A.0315
Extent:
4 videocassettes :
Betacam SP.
Language:
English
Provenance:
Katie Davis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History
Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Walter Meyer on
August 2, 1996.
Interviewer:
Katie Davis
Legal Status:
Permanent Collection
Classification:
video recording
Corporate Name:
Hitler-Jugend.
Ravensbrück (
Concentration camp)
Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Genre/
Form:
Oral histories.
Geographic Name:
Berlin (Germany)
Düsseldorf (Germany)
Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
Kassel (Germany)
Oranienburg (Germany)
United States--Emigration and immigration.
Personal Name:
Meyer,
Walter, 1926-
Topical Term:
Catholics--Germany--Kassel.
Concentration camp escapes--Germany.
Kristallnacht,
1938.
Prisoner-of-war escapes--Germany.
Prisoners of war--Germany.
Prisons--Germany--Kassel.
Tuberculosis.
World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from
Germany.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons,
German.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Germany.
Conditions on
Access:
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use:
No restrictions on use
Finding Aid Language:
English
Finding Aid:
Transcript:
RG-50.030.0371_trs_en
.pdf [English]
Part of:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history collection.
Dr. Walter Meyer has published part of his biographic details in his book "
Tomorrow will be better -
Surviving Nazi Germany http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-Will-Be-Better-Surviving/dp/0826212174
- published: 01 Feb 2015
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