Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
September 2008
Abstract
Wayne Armstrong was a rifleman in the 63rd Infantry Division when it liberated Landsberg on April 29, 1945, finding the camp while en route to Munich. He describes his experiences at Landsberg and afterwards, including finding a slave labor camp near Mosbach and receiving a letter from one of the former prisoners decades after the war that thanked him for liberating the camp.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Infantry Division 63rd, Kaufering (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:58:03; 16 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Landsberg am Lech (Germany); Mosbach (Germany); Munich (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00005
Recommended Citation
Armstrong, Wayne, "Wayne Armstrong Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 5.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/5
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