Thank you for what you do! I think your interviews are fantastic. The questions you ask are phenomenal. May I ask you what camera and audio equipment you're using? I've been wanting to do some of this myself, and I'd like to use some tested equipment that works well. Thank you so much!
There seems to be such a dichotomy between how the Germans generally treated allied pows and how the upper Reich treated jews and any other people they found "undesirable" for whatever reason. It's just all quite strange and tragic.
It's the ultimate dichotomy because as an American soldier you would 100% prefer Germans caught you over the Japanese. Germans respected military prowess but it was really only towards the Americans and Brits. If you were deemed an "undesirable" or if you were Russian the Germans would make you suffer. Honestly the Japanese were overall much worse towards pow's and civilians but thankfully they didn't create the infrastructure for mass genocide.
Its amazing in how many of these stories you will hear a veteran say he saw someone "cut in half" or we were hit by our own artillery or something similar. Seems so sanitary when briefly mentioned in a lomg interview but imagine what that looks like in real life. You still dont see movies where 1% shows the brutality of what was a daily occurrence
Thank you for keeping the memories alive
Thank you for documenting this man’s story
Thank you for getting these great men’s stories…
God bless these men. Rishi, Sir, thank you sincerely for your work with them.
Thank you for what you do! I think your interviews are fantastic. The questions you ask are phenomenal.
May I ask you what camera and audio equipment you're using? I've been wanting to do some of this myself, and I'd like to use some tested equipment that works well. Thank you so much!
What a smile. This fine gentleman figured out how to live.
Weldon Kennamer was captured in Dec.1944 in the Buldge. 30 year old Private.
There seems to be such a dichotomy between how the Germans generally treated allied pows and how the upper Reich treated jews and any other people they found "undesirable" for whatever reason. It's just all quite strange and tragic.
It's the ultimate dichotomy because as an American soldier you would 100% prefer Germans caught you over the Japanese. Germans respected military prowess but it was really only towards the Americans and Brits. If you were deemed an "undesirable" or if you were Russian the Germans would make you suffer. Honestly the Japanese were overall much worse towards pow's and civilians but thankfully they didn't create the infrastructure for mass genocide.
Its amazing in how many of these stories you will hear a veteran say he saw someone "cut in half" or we were hit by our own artillery or something similar. Seems so sanitary when briefly mentioned in a lomg interview but imagine what that looks like in real life. You still dont see movies where 1% shows the brutality of what was a daily occurrence
God bless this man! A true, American hero!! He is probably 100 years old or more!!
Thankyou!!
The volume is so low i cannot understand what he is saying.
Turn on CC.
I turned on closed captioning to read the dialogue.
War ended 80 years ago. We're lucky to get any audio at this point
Im 3rd gen Veteran. From WW1 until now.Im very sorry for your internment.
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My great uncle (by marriage) survived this camp; the story goes that because he spoke German, he had an advantage of some sort.
Thank you for sharing your experience and story with us ❤🇺🇸God Bless you, your family and friends 🇺🇸❤️