Posted by Allen Wanderlich on April 27, 2006, 6:12 pm, in reply to "Ahlem Camp" You have an excellent collage of your father’s photo’s. One of that stockade was a reminder. Workers were not as starved as freed GI (skeleton-thin) POW’s who walked past us toward the rear. “Don’t give them any food” was an order passed down our column. Freedom and what it means. What an expensive treasure America has! A price was paid and an investment is required to keep what we worked for. Allen Wanderlich, former Pfc., Co.K, 335th Inf. Regt. “Railsplitters”.
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Mark: Did your father say that Alhem was a Jewish concentration camp? I was at that stockade, close to Hanover, they called “der lager” I spoke with some Polish workers, didn’t understand others. They said that German guards ran away and were glad to see Americans. I can’t recall any reference to Jews. It was a forced labor camp with workers from various places., D.P.”s (displaced persons). After Hanover we had other places to visit with Germans ready to greet us. According to Gen. Bolling, captured krauts called us “hatchet men”. Soon V.E.-Day and a roster with too many crosses next to names. Part of America’s proud history but not the end of WW 2. Only the end of hostilities in Europe.
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