Liebschner, Hans-Paul Joachim (Oral history)

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German schoolchild and member of Hitler Youth in Germany, 1933-1942; airman and NCO served with 13th Flieger Regt and Meindel Div, German Air Force in France, 1942-1943; NCO with 2nd Bn 11th Parachute Regt, 4th Parachute Div in Italy, 1943-1944; prisoner of war in United States of America and GB, 1944-1947

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REEL 1 Background in Leditz, Germany, 1925-1933: family; education. Recollections of period as schoolchild and member of Hitler Youth in Germany, 1933-1942: story to illustrate grandfather's attitude towards Jews; reactions to burning of Jewish synagogues; popular attitudes towards Jews; image of early concentration camps; propagation of idea that Jews were responsible for German misfortunes; fear of probing into fate of Jews; reasons for his father's voting for Nazis in 1933; effect of economic recovery on attitudes towards Adolf Hitler and Nazis; membership of Hitler Youth including social work carried out and political content. REEL 2 Continues: lectures on German political grievances; contact with German refugees from Poland; his opinion of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis regime; his father's refusal to join Nazi Party before the war and Socialist Unity Party after the Second World War; German attitude towards GB, France and United States of America; refusal of German prisoners of war to believe in revelations of concentration camps in United States of America, 1945; German attitudes towards Poles and Soviets; popular attitudes to outbreak of Second World War, 9/1939; mistrust of British, 1939. REEL 3 Continues: acceptance of Adolf Hitler's reasons for attack on Poland; reaction to rapid collapse of Poland; effect of war on living standards; reaction to ease of German victory in the West, 1940; reasons for volunteering for armed forces, 1942. Recollections of period as airman and NCO with 13th Flieger Regt and Meindel Div, German Air Force in France, 1942-1943: orders to behave well towards populace; German troops feeling that French treated too leniently; his attitude towards French Resistance; French attitudes towards Marshal Philippe Petain and General Charles De Gaulle; contrast between German and Austrian personnel. REEL 4 Continues: cases in which troops need to think for themselves; initial reaction to army regime; reaction to sight of Soviet prisoners of war in 1943; relations between officers and other ranks; Berliner in unit; incident of indiscipline; belief in German victory until sight of mass of American equipment on capture; opinion of fighting qualities of British and American troops; standard of rations; cigarette issue; songs sung; anticipation of Operation Jubilee the raid on Dieppe, 19/6/1942; minimal effect of Allied air raid on submarine pens at Brest. REEL 5 Continues: duties as officer's batman; his crashing of officer's car; lack of fuel to train pilots, autumn, 1942; funeral of brother's best friend; officer's advice against applying to become paratrooper; training as paratrooper. Recollections of operations as NCO with 2nd Bn 11th Parachute Regt, 4th Parachute Div in Italy, 1943-1944: lack of German troops to defend Rome, 1/1944; role as battalion runner; intensity of artillery bombardment; effect of bombardment on paratrooper; German counter-attack against American forces; sight of paratroopers blown to pieces; closeness of German and Allied lines; tacit agreement not to shoot at meal times. REEL 6 Continues: deceiving superiors over orders to seize prisoners; rescue of wounded from no man's land; dazed condition of Allied prisoners of war; attitude towards Allies; nature of German propaganda; attitude of combatants and comradeship between front line troops on opposing sides; sense that unfair tactics were not deployed during Italian campaign; attitude towards Italians; taking chickens from Italian farmer; reputation of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring as Italophile; attitude towards Nazi Party in unit; degree of contact with Allied propaganda; fear of being sent to Eastern Front; second hand story of Soviet atrocity on Eastern Front told by his brother. REEL 7 Continues: conditions in trenches; story of his rejected application to join Waffen-SS at sixteen. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in GB, 1946-1948: classification of German prisoner of wars during de-Nazification process; his transfer from United States of America to GB, 4/1946; suicide of prisoner of wars on arrival in GB; contrast between treatment of German prisoner of wars by British Army and Royal Air Force; delay in release of B and C category prisoner of wars. Aspects of operations as NCO with 2nd Bn 11th Parachute Regt, 4th Parachute Div in Italy, 1943-1944: attitude towards duties as runner. REEL 8 Continues: his selection for officer training; formation of emergency battle group, summer 1944; carnage amongst advancing United States Army troops at Ardea; capture and shooting of German prisoner of war by United States Army troops. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in Italy, 1944: nature of his interrogation; effects of deprivation during interrogation; reasons why United States Army troops shot his comrade on capture; move to camp at Anzio; treatment of prisoner of wars by American guards during burial duties. REEL 9 Continues: nature of work burying dead in Anzio area, 6/1944; move to camp in Naples; plans to kill German Communist in charge of prisoner of wars; punishment of ringleaders; inadequacy of rations; smuggling of extra food to comrades in solitary confinement; plans to escape to Spain during voyage from Italy to United States of America. Recollections of period as prisoner of war in United States of America, 1944-1946: treatment on arrival, 8/1944; demanding and arrogant attitude of prisoner of wars; worsening of situation after discovery of concentration camps by Allies; prisoner of wars made to run gauntlet of American guards; reaction to concentration camp films; worsening of cotton picking work; beating of interpreter; farmer's objection to ill treatment of prisoner of wars. REEL 10 Continues: working of arrangement between prisoner of wars and black cotton pickers; suffering from poison ivy; improvement from Christmas 1945; change in attitude of German prisoner of wars; occasional escapes; circumstances of his removal from United States of America. Recollections of period as prisoner of war in GB, 1946-1947: prisoner of war organisation; lack of conflict amongst prisoner of wars; resolution of conflicts; question of how rank wasn't a measure of character; refusal of prisoner of wars to work after spitting incident; contact with Robert Hardy and visits to London in his company; how he met his future wife; climbing into prisoner of war camp. REEL 11 Continues: visits to London; initial impressions of GB; invitation to spend Christmas with British family, 1946; arrangements for correspondence with home in Germany; level of prisoner of war health; return to Germany, 1947; effects of prisoner of war experience.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), Second World War (content), Interwar (association), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (recorder)
Liebschner, Hans-Paul Joachim (interviewee/speaker)
Production date: 1985-06-17
Dimensions: whole: Duration 330, Number Of Items 11
Catalogue number: 8878

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