Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 44
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Cronin
44Cronin:
Marcello:
Cronin:in a passenger car, or did they load you in a boxcar?
No, at this point we were in passenger trains that were
of a vintage still many, many years ago. I'd say they
were comparable to 1920 trains in America. They had
stiff seats and were just old time trains. But anyway,
we went through Germany, and they took us to Frankfurt.
It's called Frankfurt am Main, and there is where we
started getting our baptism with the German populace.
Could you describe some of these incidents?
Yes, well, I remember in Frankfurt one of the men--Bob
was still hurt with his leg--and I don't know who it
was, but I think it was Bob who wanted a drink of water,
and we had to drink out of a horse trough. I remember
standing there and they crossed--Frankfurt's a big station--
and across the tracks maybe thirty feet from us was a
German boy on crutches with one leg gone, and the people
started talking to each other, and I remember that the
murmuring got louder. Even though we were outside--we
were not inside the station and remember that the guards
were very old men--and we thought that we were going to
have a real problem because these people were looking
at the man who lost his leg, and they were looking at us
and we were Fliegerschwein, and they didn't like us at
all, and we knew that these people would not protect us,
but as it developed nothing happened.
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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/m1/46/?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.