Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 58
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this German's face, and they grabbed him and hit him
with a rifle butt and dragged him off, and that's the
last we saw of him. And here again was something
really horrible to see--hate--and put that into a
nation and you've got problems.
You were still just in a staging area. You were not
really in a prisoner-of-war camp.
No. And from there they put us in the proverbial "forty
and eight" that you hear about--the old, little, narrow
gauged boxcar--locked us up, and took us to Stalag Luft #1.
It took about three days to get there. We were in a
boxcar with, I guess, three or four German soldiers, and
they all had something like a sub-machine gun or something,
but they were heavily armed at one end of the train.
And I remember we were at Magdeburg one time going up--
they said it was Magdeburg--and they got off and locked
us in. They went to a shelter during an air raid. Thank
God they didn't hit the yard we were in. But then we
went to this Stalag Luft #1, which is at a town called
Barth, Germany, thirty miles from Sweden.
Now by this time, I gather, you were turned over to the
Luftwaffe.
No.
Didn't they run most of the camps?
No, we were still in the hands of the Wermacht. I thinkMarcello:
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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/m1/60/?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.