Filmmaker Mike Dorsey with a photo of his grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel E.C. “Easy” Freeman
Interview conducted by Tom Stockman November 8th, 2011
Buchenwald was a German Nazi concentration camp built near Weimar Germany July 1937. It was the largest concentration camp on German soil and even though it was technically not an extermination camp, it was a site of an extraordinary number of deaths. Although it was highly unusual for the Germans to send Allied Pows to concentration camps, Buchenwald held a group of 168 aviators for two months in 1944.These soldiers were from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. They all arrived at Buchenwald in August of 1944.All these airmen were in planes that had crash landed into Nazi-occupied France. Though initially rescued and hidden by French citizens, many were turned over to the Nazis by Jacques Desoubrie, a French traitor who was actually a double-agent for the Gestapo.
Interview conducted by Tom Stockman November 8th, 2011
Buchenwald was a German Nazi concentration camp built near Weimar Germany July 1937. It was the largest concentration camp on German soil and even though it was technically not an extermination camp, it was a site of an extraordinary number of deaths. Although it was highly unusual for the Germans to send Allied Pows to concentration camps, Buchenwald held a group of 168 aviators for two months in 1944.These soldiers were from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. They all arrived at Buchenwald in August of 1944.All these airmen were in planes that had crash landed into Nazi-occupied France. Though initially rescued and hidden by French citizens, many were turned over to the Nazis by Jacques Desoubrie, a French traitor who was actually a double-agent for the Gestapo.
- 11/17/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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