Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
September 2008
Abstract
Colvin Caughey was a machine gunner in the 11th Armored Division, which liberated Mauthausen on May 6, 1945. The division arrived in England in October 1944, trained there for two months, and landed in France on December 16, the day the Battle of the Bulge began. Caughey was wounded two weeks later and spent several weeks in Army hospitals in France and England; he rejoined the division in April, by which time it had reached Germany. A week before finding Mauthausen, they encountered several hundred prisoners on a death march. Caughey and the division were at Mauthausen for three weeks; his primary task there was guard duty for the hospital and the German prisoners of war. In this interview, he provides a detailed description of the camp and its prisoners.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Battle of the Ardennes (1944-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Armored Division 11th, Mauthausen (Concentration camp), Death marches
Extent
01:28:14; 41 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Ardennes; Mauthausen (Austria)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00017
Recommended Citation
Caughey, Colvin, "Colvin Caughey Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 14.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/14
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