Oral History Interview with Richard Crane

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Oral History Interview with Richard Crane

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December 1, 1994

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Interviewee:
Richard Crane
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Philip G. Solomon

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Captain, now Lieutenant Colonel Richard Crane served in Military Government in 63rd Division Headquarters, United States Army. He mentions that displaced persons seemed to be on the move everywhere in the spring of 1945. While he was attached to a Regimental Combat Team of the 63rd Division, he entered Landsberg concentration camp, a sub-camp of Dachau, in Germany for a day, after it had been liberated. He briefly describes the condition of the surviving inmates, his reactions, as a Jew, as well as how other soldiers reacted to what they found at Landsberg. He could not comprehend how German people he got to know in the 1930s could commit such atrocities.


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