Interview with Alan Lazarus

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British NCO served as anti-aircraft instructor with Royal Artillery to Finnish Army in Finland, 2/1940; officer served with 61st (Middlesex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, 37th Anti-Aircraft Bde, 6th Anti-Aircraft Div in GB, 6/1940-10/1941; served with 61st (Middlesex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, 8th Anti-Aircraft Bde, Tenth Army, Middle East Command and 17th Anti-Aircraft Bde, Eighth Army in Iraq, Iran and North Africa, 10/1941-2/1943; served as staff officer with Headquarters, XXX Corps in North Africa, 2/1943-6/1943 and Headquarters, XIII Corps in Italy, 1943-1945; served as Military Governor of Brunswick, Germany, 1945-1946

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REEL 1 Background in London, GB, 1913-1930: family; education. Apects of period as student at University of Cologne, Germany, 1930-1932; return to work in Cologne after 1932; impressions of Adolf Hitler at rally in Cologne. Aspect of period as gunner and NCO with 61st (Middlesex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery in GB, 1937-1939: reasons for joining Territorial Army, 1937; lack of preparations for war during Munich Crisis, 9/1938; expectation of gas attack on declaration of war, 3/9/1939. Recollections of period as anti-aircraft instructor with Royal Artillery to Finnish Army in Finland, 2/1940: recruitment as anti-aircraft instructor; journey from GB to Finland via Sweden; arrival in Turku; Soviet Air Force methods of navigating to targets; training work at Jyväskylä; visit to Salla Front; opinion of Soviet equipment. REEL 2 Continues: nature of fighting on Salla Front. Recollections of period as officer with 61st (Middlesex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, 37th Anti-Aircraft Bde, 6th Anti-Aircraft Div in GB, 6/1940-10/1941: commissioning, 1940; coastal defence duties, 1940-1941; location of unit near Dover; German Air Force aircraft strafing attacks at Shakespeare Cliff, summer, 1940; problems of hitting German Navy E-boats in English Channel; in action against German Air Force at Canvey Island; invasion scare, 15/9/1940; belief that Germans would invade. Aspects of period as officer with 61st (Middlesex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, 8th Anti-Aircraft Bde, Tenth Army, Middle East Command and 17th Anti-Aircraft Bde, Eighth Army in Iraq, Iran and North Africa, 10/1941-2/1943: voyage aboard HMT Duchess of Athol from GB to Durban South Africa, 1941; arrival in Basra, Iraq via India; role in northern Iraq, 1942. Aspects of period as staff officer with Headquarters, XXX Corps in North Africa, 2/1943-6/1943: joining XXX Corps; prisoner of war interrogation training in Cairo, Egypt. REEL 3 Continues: principles of interrogating prisoners of war; later role as staff officer with Headquarters, XIII Corps in Italy; role as G2(I) to Major-General Brian Horrocks; opinion of General Brian Horrocks. Recollections of period as Military Governor of Brunswick, Germany, 1945-1946: role and duties; problems of developing infrastructure; contact with Displaced Persons arriving from Soviet Zone of Occupation, Germany; development of relations with Soviet authorities in Magdeburg; treatment of Soviet drunk; problems with Polish Displaced Persons; attitude to confiscation of German property. REEL 4 Continues: visits to Berlin and Adolf Hitler's Chancellery.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), 1945-1989 (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Lazarus, Alan (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1999-01-12
Dimensions: whole: Duration 100, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 19939

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