Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
June 2008
Abstract
Aldo De Tomasi was a member of the 104th Infantry Division, which liberated Nordhausen, part of the Dora-Mittelbau complex of camps, on April 11, 1945. He joined the division during the Battle of the Bulge, which was his first combat action. After the Bulge, while proceeding through Germany, the division came to a fork in the road; most of the division took the left fork, but De Tomasi's unit took the other, which led them to Nordhausen. They were the first unit to arrive at the camp, and were followed by the rest of the division and the medics. In this interview, De Tomasi describes finding the camp and seeing the prisoners there.
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. Infantry Division 104th, Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:17:52; 16 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Ardennes; Nordhausen (Thuringia, Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00027
Recommended Citation
De Tomasi, Aldo, "Aldo De Tomasi Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 21.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/21
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