Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 50
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Cronin
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remember to check on. I don't know how to spell it, and
I can hardly pronounce it. It's called Oberursel. It
was an interrogation camp where they interrogated high-
ranking English officers at the beginning of the war.
They used every trick known to man. We were told in
our briefing, in our intelligence briefing, that this
place was so infamous that the English Air Force
bombed it with their own men down there because they were
using women, they were using all types of attractive
hunting trips or partying, anything else to get secrets
from high-ranking British officers. In all the searching
that went along on me, I had concealed a compass, and
we were in this . . . they took us into this big room
and made us strip, and when they stripped us I remember
I handed them this compass because I knew they were
going to find it. I said we were all bare-headed, but
we weren't because one of the men, Jack, had on a cap,
flight cap, and then this guy looked at it.and he said,
"Oh, you trained in San Marcos, Texas." I remember this
cap had a tab on it that said San Marcos, Texas, so that
gave him away, and when I handed this man the compass he
was writing stuff down. I remember telling Jack or Ray,
"Jack we're in Oberursel." We knew where we were, and
we knew this was a very infamous camp at one time. Now
I don't know whether all Air Corps personnel went through
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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/m1/52/?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.