Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 59
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Cronin
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the only thing of any interest that you might like to
hear about is they were marching into Barth . . . Barth
is a peninsula and the camp is at the' end of the peninsula.
And there was an old man that was picking bricks up from
the side of his house. Just the corner of his house
had fallen down into the street, and he was real intent
on picking the bricks up. And we were marching three
abreast, I remember, and there were a lot of guards with
us at this time because we were going into the camp,
and, of course, we had picked up . . . there must have
been a hundred of us.
But most of your crew was still together yet?
Well, no. I was just with Bob at this time. They let
us out of Oberursel one at a time. It was just Bob
and I together. And this old man--now here's the
compassion for the people that the men had--he looked
at us, and I remember they swung the column to an oblique
left to go around this rubble of bricks. And he had a
shovel or something in his hands, and I remember him
raising it, and I'm glad I wasn't on that side, and he
started running at us. And here was a man who . . . this
was an Air Force camp we were going to where they kept
fliers, and he came out at us in his old way, and he
could speak enough English, and I remember him crying,
"You sons of bitches." He was going to take us all onMarcello:
Cronin:
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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/m1/61/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.