Crampton, Patricia Elizabeth Cardew (Oral history)

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Object description

British schoolchild in Beaconsfield, GB, 1939-1943; student at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford in GB,1943-1946; translator with English Section at International Military Tribunal, Nüremberg, Germany, 1947-1949

Content description

REEL 1 Background in Bombay, India and Beaconsfield, GB, 1925-1939: family; education. Aspects of period as schoolchild in Beaconsfield, GB, 1939-1943: reaction to declaration of Second World War, 3/9/1939; work with 5th (Beaconsfield) Bn Buckinghamshire Home Guard; incident of being strafed by German Air Force aircraft; relations with Royal Air Force pilot and subsequent reaction to his death later in war; effect on public morale of Royal Air Force bombing raids on Germany; interest in German and Scandinavian languages. Aspects of period as student with St Hugh's College, University of Oxford in GB, 1943-1946: studying modern languages; effects of war on University of Oxford; nature of relations between students and American servicemen; lack of German Air Force bombing of Oxford; memories of university lecturers. REEL 2 Continues: reaction to Prime Minister Winston Churchill's election defeat, 7/1945; prior recollections of work in munitions factory and as nurse with Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment in 1942; opinion of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's speeches. Recollections of period as translator with English Section at International Military Tribunal, Nüremberg, Germany, 1947-1949: background to obtaining employment with war crimes trials; devastated condition of Nuremberg, early 1947; attitude of parents to her going to Germany; impact of working at war crime trials; attitude towards American servicemens' behaviour towards German women; memories of German Jew Peter Lawrence; memories of other members of English Section. REEL 3 Continues: relations between British and American Sections; duties as reviser; resurgence of German art in immediate post-war years; reasons for restrictions on eating in German restaurants; use of cigarettes as currency; obtaining supplies from American PX in order to send home to GB; black market; acquiring firearm for self-defence; attitude of Germans towards Allied occupation forces; preference for translation rather than interpretation work; involvement in the Doctors' Trial and I G Farben Trial. REEL 4 Continues: reaction to nature of evidence given at the Doctors' Trial; attitude towards Germans; attending sentencing of SS Obergruppenfuhrer Oswald Pohl; trial of Krupp's team for contempt of court; question of fairness of trials; attitude of British public towards International Military Tribunal; German attitude towards International Military Tribunal and war crimes; opinion of film 'Judgement at Nuremberg' and television series 'Holocaust'.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production Company)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Crampton, Patricia Elizabeth Cardew (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1997-05-13
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 17426

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Crampton, Patricia Elizabeth Cardew
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer
Pohl, Oswald Ludwig
University, Oxford, College, St Hugh's
Home Guard, Buckinghamshire, Bn, 5 (Beaconsfield)
Relief Organisation, British Red Cross, Voluntary Aid Detachment
International Military Tribunal, Nüremberg
Royal Air Force
German Air Force
Associated places

British India
Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
England, United Kingdom
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Germany
Nüremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Associated subjects

Film, US: Judgement at Nuremberg, (1961)
Television Series, US: Holocaust, (1978)
Associated keywords

War Crimes
Holocaust
Associated themes

Civilian Life and War Work, 1939-1945: Home Front, 1939-1945
Nazi Europe, 1933-1945

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