Interview with Fritz Karl Jeltsch

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German private served with 914th Grenadier Regt, 352nd Infantry Div, German Army in Normandy, France, 6/1944-8/1944; prisoner of war in No 15 Camp, Donaldson's School, West Coates, Edinburgh, No 2 Camp, Glen Mill, Oldham, No 280 Camp, North Lynn Farm, King's Lynn, No 36 Camp, Hartwell Dog Track, Hartwell, GB and No 132 Camp, Medicine Hat, Canada, 1944-1948

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REEL 1 Background in Silesia, Germany, 1924-1939: family; education; village life pre-1939. Aspect of period as worker with German Labour Service in Germany, 1943: duties at Cuxhaven; job repairing shoes at Freiberg; call-up for military service to German Army. Recollections of operations as private with No 5 Coy, 914th Grenadier Regt, 352nd Infantry Div, German Army in Normandy, France, 6/1944-8/1944: anticipation of Allied invasion and move to Saint-Malo; Allied aircraft strafing attack on unit at Saint-Lô; role as mortarman; surrounding and wiping out of unit in Normandy, 8/1944. REEL 2 Continues: attempt to aid wounded comrade, 7/1944; story he was told that United States Army employed 'hardened criminals'; escape across River Seine at Rouen; escaping encirclement, 8/1944. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in France, 8/1944-9/1944: capture by French Resistance and Canadian Army between Rouen and Amiens, France, 31/8/1944; handing over to British Army troops, 9/1944; stoning of prisoners of war by French civilians at Caen; reaction of British Army guards to stoning; British Army soldier's theft from prisoner of war. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in GB, 1944: voyage from Cherbourg, France to Southampton, GB. REEL 3 Continues: initial encounter with Welsh rarebit; move to No 15 Camp, Donaldson's School, West Coates, Edinburgh; transfer to Glasgow. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in No 132 Camp, Medicine Hat, Canada, 1944-1946: voyage from GB to United States of America; character of No 132 Camp, Medicine Hat; work as lumberjack; cutting of prisoner of war rations after VE Day, 8/5/1945; nature of forestry work he did. Recollections of period as prisoner of war in GB, 1946-1948: move to No 2 Camp, Glen Mill, Oldham, 12/1946; move to No 280 Camp, North Lynn Farm, King's Lynn, 1/1947; work in No 36 Camp, Hartwell Dog Track, Hartwell for agricultural work at Tring; problems of contacting family; other camps he was interned in; nature of political lectures in No 2 Camp, Glen Mill, Oldham; effect of Allied propaganda leaflets in Normandy, France; attitude of young Germans towards Adolf Hitler. REEL 4 Continues: his decision to remain in GB; farmwork in Northamptonshire. Aspects of post-war life and employment in GB: loss of leg in road accident; marriage to German au pair; work with shoe industry in Northampton; reasons for keeping German nationality; prior recollection of opinion of German Army troops about United States Army troops in Normandy, France, 6/1944-8/1944.

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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)
Jeltsch, Fritz Karl (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2000-09-02
Dimensions: whole: Duration 110, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 20598

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