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Sons and Soldiers

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by Bruce Henderson


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  Index

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  Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations.

  A

  Abel, Leonard, 240

  Adler, Anya, 100–101, 223, 376

  Allen, Terry, 134

  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 123

  Andes (British liner), 206

  Angress, Ernst, 57

  arrested, 128–129

  attempted escape, 64, 65–69

  death, 373–374

  Hitler jokes, 58

  in Holland, 70–71, 122, 125–126

  seriousness of situation in Nazi Germany, 61–62

  Angress, Fritz, 57, 61

  escape plan, 64–65

  in Holland, 122, 123–124, 125–126

  life after World War II, 373, 374

  Angress, Hans, 57, 61

  escape plan, 64–66

  in Holland, 122, 123, 125–126

  life after World War II, 373, 374

  Angress, Henny, 57, 59

  escape plan, 64–66

  Hitler jokes, 58

  in Holland, 122, 123, 125–126

  last letter to Werner, 128–129

  life after World War II, 372–373, 374

  parting with Werner, 63

  Angress, Werner, 64

  childhood before Hitler, 57–58

  childhood in Nazi Germany, 58–62

  emigration, 62–63, 66–70, 71

  in Holland, 122–124

  at Hyde Farmlands, 124–127

  life after World War II, 375–376

  voyage to America, 124

  Angress, Werner, in Army, 162, 232

  in alien detachment, 129–130

  assignment in Europe, 160–167

  Battle of the Bulge and, 277–286

  Breen and, 200–202

  at Camp Blanding, 129

  at Camp Ritchie, 135–141, 142–143, 145–148

  captured by Germans, 176–178, 193–199

  citizenship, 141

  D-Day, 167–171

  dog tags, 177, 178

  at Fort Meade, 127–129

  in Holland, 245–247, 248–250

  interrogation technique, 282–286

  jump training, 162–163, 165–166

  landing in Europe alone, 172–175

  leave in England, 231–232

  letters to Curt Bondy, 234–235, 248, 249

  medal, 231–232

  at POW camp in England, 233

  prisoners captured by, 199–200

  promotions, 284

  with reequipped 82nd Airborne, 233–234

  search for family, 371–374, 374

  at Wöbbelin concentration camp, 339–344

  Applegate, Rex, 140

  Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP), 228–229, 271, 291

  Arnhem, Holland, 235–236, 238, 247, 248

  Arzt, Johanna, 43–44. See also Lewy, Johanna

  Auerbach Orphanage. See Baruch Auerbach Orphanage for Jewish Girls and Boys

  Auschwitz death camp, 340, 370, 373, 374, 376, 377

  B

  Banfill, Charles Y., 133

  Barnes, John G., 128, 129, 202

  Baruch Auerbach Orphanage for Jewish Girls and Boys, 37, 38, 39–40, 43, 45, 214

  baseball, stories told by Herr Tittel, 19

  Bastogne, Belgium, 261–263, 266–267, 278–279, 318–319

  Battle of the Bulge, 268, 271–286, 287, 296–297, 315–317, 318–321

  Belgium

  Bastogne, 261–263, 266–267, 278–279, 318–319

  German occupation of, 125


  Nijmegen bridge operation, 235–237

  Waal bridge operation, 238–239

  Bernhard (cousin of Martin Selling), 2, 364

  Bishop, Jesse E., 310

  Boizenburg concentration camp, 355, 356, 358, 360

  Bondy, Curt, 62–63, 65, 122–123, 124, 126, 127, 130

  Bradley, Omar, 159

  Breen, John, 162–163, 200–202

  Brombert, Jacob, 98–99, 100, 101, 103, 105–107, 108, 109

  Brombert, Nora, 99–100, 149

  Brombert, Vera, 98–99, 100, 101, 109

  Brombert, Victor

  childhood before Hitler, 98, 99–100

  childhood in Nazi Germany, 99

  life after World War II, 376

  life in America, 109–111

  life in France, 100–104

  taking of Saint-Lô and, 218––220

  voyage to America, 107–108

  Wolf and, 103–104, 104–105, 224

  Brombert, Victor, in Army, 255, 259

  basic training, 149–150

  in Bastogne, 261

  at Camp Ritchie, 150–151

  with 82nd Reconnaissance Battalion in France, 218–221

  in England, 151–154

  escape from Belgium, 266–267

  hailed as hero in France, 251–252

  mistaken for German by MPs, 264–265

  in Normandy, 178–184

  Paris, 221–226

  in Paris officially, 252–254

  promotions, 150–151, 157

  return voyage to Europe, 149, 151

  with 28th Infantry Division to interrogate of German POWs, 254, 255–261

  Bruns, Curt, 276, 305, 307–310, 346–351, 351

  Buber-Neumann, Margarete, 356–359

  Buchenwald concentration camp

  described, 326, 328, 330

  Guy Stern at, 331–334

  liberation of, 327–331

  location, 325

  Nazi evacuation of, 326

  number of survivors, 328n

  Stephan Lewy at, 327–331

  Burke, Malcolm C., 22, 23

  C

  “cages” for POWs

  in Europe, 189–190, 202, 209, 287–288

  German POWs from North Africa, 158

  sites in France for, 159–160

  Camp Barkeley, Kansas, 154–155

  Camp Ritchie

  Werner Angress at, 135–141, 142–143, 145–148

  assignments for graduates, 134

  background as intelligence training camp, 131–132

  Victor Brombert at, 150–151

  graduates, 147–148, 152

  importance of, 133

  Martin Selling at, 121–122

  soldiers at, xi, 135–136, 139

  Guy Stern at, 155–157

  training, xi, 134, 136

  See also Interrogation of Prisoners of War (IPW) courses

  Cavender, Charles, 269–270, 272, 273–275

  Chamberlain, Neville, 89, 115

  Château Chabannes, France, 78–81, 79, 377

  Chevrier, Félix, 78, 81

  Chochenbaum, Armand, 79

  Cohn, Herbert, 137, 138–139

  Cologne, Germany, 56

  “Commissar Krukov,” 293–296

  concentration camps

  Auschwitz, 340, 370, 373, 374, 376, 377

  Boizenburg, 355–356

  Buchenwald, 325–334, 330

  Dachau, 4, 5–9, 10, 51–54, 326

  German civilian reactions to, 329–333, 342, 344

  Landsberg, 304

  Majdanek, 370

  Neuengamme system, 355–366

  Oranienburg, 42

  Ravensbrück women’s, 356, 357, 358

  Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, 190–191

  Stutthof, 363, 379

  Treblinka, 370–371

  Wöbbelin, 338–344, 340, 341, 343, 355–356, 379

  Cota, Norman “Dutch,” 257, 263, 266

  Cross of Lorraine, 251–252

  Cysner, Josef, 15

  Czechoslovakia, 3, 70, 88, 115, 326

  D

  D-Day

  82nd Airborne jump, 169–175

  Eisenhower’s message, 168–169

  wait for, 160, 164–165, 166

  Dachau concentration camp

  conditions in, 5, 6–7, 51–52

  consequences for escapes, 7, 8–9

  crematories at, 51

  deaths after Kristallnacht roundups, 51

  early prisoners, 4

  establishment of, 4

  as hierarchy of violence, 7, 8, 9

  liberated, 326

  physical plant, 5

  release of prisoners, 51, 52–54

  Saturday afternoon inspections, 7–8

  Martin Selling in, 5–10, 51–52

  Martin Selling released from, 52–54

  treatment of prisoners, 5–6, 7–9

  Dachau Death Train, 326n

  Darré, Walther, 62

  death camps, 340, 370–371, 373, 374

  Descheneaux, George, 274, 275

  Dietrich, Marlene, 299–302, 300

  Dingfelder, Ernst, 6, 10, 52

  dog tags, 155, 177, 178, 230–231

  Drexel, Fred P., 346–347

  E

  Ebeling, Gerhard, 24, 368

  Ehrlich, Manfred. See Howard, Fred

  Ehrlich, Paula, 301

  82nd Airborne Division, 235–240

  D-Day, 169–171

  in England, 233–235

  nickname, 230

  Nijmegen bridge operation, 235, 237–239

  overview of, 161

  surrender of von Tippelskirch, 334–338

  Wöbbelin concentration camp and, 339

  Eisenhower, Dwight, 159, 234, 342, 352

  D-Day message, 168–169

  enemy aliens, xi, 115, 116–117, 119, 129–130

  England

  enemy aliens in, 115, 116–117

  false sense of security, 115–116

  Ritchie Boys in, 151–154, 158–160, 159, 206–207, 229, 231–233

  D-Day wait, 160, 164–165, 166

  war declared on Germany, 73

  F

  Falaise Pocket, 221, 311

  Faubus, Orval, 314–315

  “find common interests” interrogation technique, 157, 293

  First Army, 158–159, 287, 290–291

  “form of bribery” interrogation technique, 157, 293

  Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 154

  France

  civilians in Normandy, 174–175, 176, 180–181

  collaboration with Germans, 222–223, 252

  false sense of security, 72

  occupied, 76–78

  Resistance, 181, 222

  U.S. Army landing in, 172–175

  war with Germany, 73–77, 103–106

  France, unoccupied

  deportation of refugees, 106

  spirit of people of Chabannes, 78, 80

  Vichy (Pétain) government, 80–81

  French Forces of the Interior (FFI), 222

  “From the Bulge to the Rhine: Diary of an Austrian Anti-Nazi” (Stern and Laun), 297

  Frucht, Karl, 310

  G

  Galanis, Bill, 304

  Gavin, James, “Jumpin’ Jim”

  characteristics, 371

  D-Day injury, 236

  D-Day orders given by, 166

  as leader, 163–164, 234, 245, 335

  surrender of von Tippelskirch to, 335–337

  Waal bridge, 238–239

  Wöbbelin concentration camp and, 341, 342

  German Jewish Children’s Aid, 22

  German Order of Battle (Military Intelligence Division of the War Department), 137–138, 156, 180

  Germany. See Jews in Germany; Nazi Germany

  Gerson, Leo, 68

  Gitta (aunt of Martin Selling), 2, 362–363

  Goebbels, Joseph

  newsreel about birthday, 67

  residence, 62

 
response to murder by Grynszpan, 44–45

  Goering, Hermann, 62

  Goodman, Benny, 88

  Gottschalk, Herbert, 327

  Gross Breesen, Poland, 63, 65

  Grow, Robert, 218, 318, 351

  Grynszpan, Herschel, 44

  H

  Hadley, Master Sergeant, 333

  Halm, Günther, 192–193

  Haupt, Heinrich, 30, 32–33

  Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), 34, 83

  Hennis, Heinrich, 16–17

  Herzig, Walter, 79

  Hesse, Heinrich, 28–29

  Hildesheim, Germany, 13–14, 92, 366–367, 367

  Hitler, Adolf

  election under, 29–30

  response to murder by Grynszpan, 44–45

  Hitler Youth, 16–17, 33, 47, 59

  Hodges, Courtney, 287, 346

  Hoffman, (German sergeant), 305

  Hoffman, Werner, 277

  Holland

  82nd Airborne Division, 235–242, 243, 244–245, 248, 249–250

  German occupation of, 125

  Horrocks, Brian, 238

  Howard, Fred, 292, 365

  life after World War II, 380–381

  partnership with Guy, 291–296, 298–302, 303–304

  Hürtgen Forest crossing, 256

  Hyde Farmlands, Virginia, 124–127

  I

  Ignatz (cousin of Martin Selling), 2, 363, 364, 365

  Immigration Act (U.S., 1924), ix–x, 33–34

  Interrogation of Prisoners of War (IPW) courses, 144, 146

  Close Combat, 140

  Documents, 139–140

  field maneuvers, 140–141, 142–143, 155–156

  final exam, 143, 145–147

  French, 150

  German Army Organization, 139

  graduates in North Africa, 134

  interrogation techniques, 156–157

  languages spoken, 135

  Order of Battle, 136–139, 156, 205, 214, 229

  Terrain and Aerial Intelligence, 140

  Irwin, Virginia, 188–190

  J

  Jacobs, Kurt

  background, 271

  execution of, 277, 305–306, 308–310, 346–350

  under fire, 272–273

  grave of, 382, 382

  surrender, 276–277

  Jasen, Kurt, 185–186

  “Jewish Southern Loop,” 70

  Jews in Germany. See also specific individuals

  actions, boycotts, and violence against, ix, 1–2, 3, 16, 29, 32–33, 40, 45–46, 47, 59–60, 91

  definition of, 31, 53

  emigration, 18–19, 20, 22–23, 48–50, 54, 55–57, 62–63, 64–68

  expulsion of Polish-born, 44

  in Hildesheim, 13–14

  imprisonment, 3–4

 

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