Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
Loading...
Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
August 2008
Abstract
Louis P. Blatz was a private in the 80th Infantry Division, which liberated Buchenwald on April 12, 1945 and Ebensee, a sub-camp of Mauthausen, on May 4-5, 1945. Arriving in Europe in January 1945, he joined the division during the Battle of the Bulge. The division proceeded on the Central Europe Campaign and encountered Buchenwald, Ebensee, and a small prisoner of war camp. Blatz describes his experiences at the three camps; he had a camera and took several photographs at Buchenwald. He also describes an encounter with a Holocaust denier several years after the war ended.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, Battle of the Ardennes (1944-1945), United States. Army. Infantry Division 80th, Buchenwald (Concentration camp), Ebensee (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:21:01; 16 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Ardennes; Weimar (Germany); Ebensee (Austria)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00010
Recommended Citation
Blatz, Louis P., "Louis P. Blatz Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 7.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/7
Rights Statement
