Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 39
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Cronin
39third day--into Vienna. Now older men began guarding
us at this point. I think they called them the Wermacht,
the People's Army, but these were the old geezers left
behind. I remember coming into Vienna. It was an odd
sensation. Here, too, we were coming in right before
noon, and I remember thinking, "My God! They'll hit
here!" It was a beautiful day this day. This was the
wrong time to be here. And that was the first time we
saw prisoners at work, and there were thousands of them
in this railroad area.
What sort of prisoners were these?
We later learned they were French, Russian, Belgian--
everything but American.
Now these were military prisoners, or were these civilian
prisoners?
Both. But just men, all men. They were repairing the
tracks. Now we had bombed this very place we were going,
and as the train came to a standstill, I remember that
all the tracks were in perfect place. They had bombed
Vienna the day before, and the guards--a couple of them
could speak English--said that a couple hours after the
raid they had the tracks back in place. As we pulled in,
I remember seeing one of these small European locomotives
upside down on top of a two-story building. Concussions
had sent it up there. Anyway, they took us off the trainMarcello:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Cronin, Eugene R. Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972, book, February 1, 1972; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529237/m1/41/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.