German Interrogation of Allied Airmen in WWII

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German Interrogation of Allied Airmen in WWII

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US airmen shot down over Germany in WWII were sent to an interrogation center (“Dulag Luft”) near Frankfurt before being assigned to a permanent POW camp. Traveling to the Dulag Luft was a very dangerous journey - angry German civilians, Hitler youth, allied bombing and strafing. Once the allied airmen arrived at Dulag Luft, the interrogation was not at all what they expected. Listen to three US airmen describe what they encountered.

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@georgielancaster1356 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you SO much for these recordings. I so wish you had started 20 years earlier - and I so wish you had been able to travel the world recording, for 20 years plus... Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Plenty of people tried, did their best, but you really have a gift in getting them enthusiastic about sharing memories. I understand it was your career in law interviews, that helped you. I would love to have supplied you with lists of people to interview, before they died. Your introductory music has now programmed me to tear up! I think it drops my heartbeat, stills my mind, and has me set up to return to the lives of these extraordinary people, and their lives, in WW2. Thank you again, from Australia.

@raymondmcfalone26 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Georgie, glad you are enjoying the videos.

@clazy8 2 жыл бұрын

It's true, there's something very natural, relaxed and open in the way these men talk that distinguishes your interviews from others I've watched on KZfaq.

@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing these stories that are not found in history books.

@raymondmcfalone26 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! And thanks for watching.

@chairlesnicol672 Жыл бұрын

@@raymondmcfalone26 Had u read a kinna nasty comment from a bit earlier something about u not giving a veteran encouragement ?

@ajthecat5520 Жыл бұрын

Form age 15 to 19, I used to play golf every day with WWII, Korea, and Nam vets. They had some great stories to tell. I was a Navy brat in Florida in the 80's. Good times.

@hello_world4859 Жыл бұрын

From age 0 to 15 I communicated with my Grandfather (1933-2023) who actually talked sometimes about war and the nice Americans giving them chewy gums (Nazi education seemingly failed, we found some texts by a teacher considering England as the prettiest country in 1943). We also found an essay of him telling he was on a biking trip and heard a plane and then two young men came and they fell from their bikes because it was a bomber above. He also said he hat one year no school after WW2 but it wasn't bad and the American relatives sent them coffee.

@klrmoto 7 ай бұрын

The Interrogator: The story of Hanns Scharff, Luftwaffe's Master interrogator. Excellent book. I wish there was a video with Hanns Scharff.

@shimmyhinnah 2 жыл бұрын

God bless you sir! Thank you for your selfless love and service for us. May we never forget. 💚✨💚✨💚✨💚🙏

@msgfrmdaactionman3000 Жыл бұрын

Great history, thanks for the eyewitness interviews!

@raymondmcfalone26 Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Raymond

@Joelontugs 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service

@Fifty8day Жыл бұрын

Good work Raymond

@raymondmcfalone26 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening. Raymond

@SJ-li6ho Жыл бұрын

Thank you to the Brits. Tiny country but massive hearts.

@michaelleblanc7283 2 жыл бұрын

Love this kind of stuff. Even though I couldn't really afford it, back in the 90s I ran with air vets (70-80 yrs-old) & attended many, many different reunions in Canada, the US and England and corresponded with 100s of them collecting their accounts. It was a wonderful time for all. After returning, getting work, marrying and raising a family they had largely put the war behind them but now retired and wondering where they had been, they eagerly told stories they had never told before (most Allied War Secrets Acts for evasion had expired in the mid-70s but most didn't know for another 10 years. Found them all, with rare exception, to share all with willing but relatively rare understanding ears, so they were generous with time and talk. That decade ended too soon. By the early 2000s most of my mail from them was to mention a serious illness or a death. My main interest had always been in evaders & would-be evaders captured on the run. The former had great exciting experiences & returned as 'Heroes' and have been well celebrated down through the years. The latter are another story. They saw the War from all perspectives in the air, on the ground with helpers and with the Germans after capture. No one wanted to hear their stories but they are in fact the very best of all. They had all excitement of the others and met the same kinds of helpers but their relationship with their fellow evadees, their helpers, those who betrayed and those who held them, is much richer.

@raymondmcfalone26 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment. One of the best evasion stories we ever heard was from B17 pilot Louis Hernandez who was shot down over Poland. Here is a link to his interview: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/islxdJCHssXGgHU.html

@michaelleblanc7283 2 жыл бұрын

@@raymondmcfalone26 If you believe my archives & the stories I've picked up can ever be of use to you, simply let me know. My archival resources and ability to recover data are looking for someone who can appreciate that obscure subject. For a very fascinating and exceptionally notable evasion experience please check out what NARA has on E&E 752 McClain, Charles J. 1/Lt (BA) - B-17 42-5306. There are four versions of his 'Apx 'C' file and they were copied in duplicate (8? times) then distributed by MIS-X because of their unique nature. He is the 'only' airman I know whose initial evasion was 'actively' assisted by the very Germans (an AA unit protecting a 'V-1' site). led by an NCO know only by the name 'Horst', who first captured him after landing, and then after a couple of days, sent him on his adventurous way leading this on the first stage part way (wasn't a set-up). He had an excellent evasion all the way back to England. The great curiosity is that McClain was the President of his BG association for many years yet never once told them his 'full' story - not perhaps even his own family. I've never understood why ? . . . or 'who' he had to try to protect. The answer may lie with the son of the English girl who hosted him as a guest when he visited England in 1938. Have tracked down her son (who may have an album of that summer & there foreign visitor but a CPU failure followed immediately by the Covid 'panic-demic' took the steam out of me till now. Need something to do. How can I contact you to share 'all' this superb story with you ? P.S. McCain's fellow crew mate, E&E 633 Asvestos, Nick S/Sgt (LWG) was also intimately involved in those events. He too was immediately captured but escaped the next day. That embarrassment may have given 'NCO Horst' an edge over his superior officer - allowing him to be excused if one of his pows got away. The AA unit was about to be posted to sunny Italy so, no doubt, no one wanted any needless inquiry that might delay their tourist goals.

@michaelleblanc7283 2 жыл бұрын

It's been a month without encouragement from you, Raymond McFalone. Truly a pity, because you have no idea about the stories I've collected over a life-time of special focus on the subject and worse for me, no one to leave some of it too that I hoped might care. It may make a some old old ghosts cranky . . . but not with me. Learned long ago not to mess with them. : )

@JohnJohnson-fr5cx 2 ай бұрын

Does anyone know where I can find some more info on Dulag Luft? I googled but I didn’t get much. I have seen the ww2 training film about it though, that video is so cool it’s like a movie with a plot a shit but it still gives instructions to those watching. I love all those ww2 movie/instructional films

@ptrekboxbreaks5198 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting to listen to

@asullivan4047 Жыл бұрын

Interesting and informative.

@michaelwhisman Жыл бұрын

Sometimes planes flew missions to see what kind of electronics turned on on the ground. Such a radar.

@stevemartin6144 Жыл бұрын

The last interviewee states that he was in Stalag 4 but in reality this was Stalag Luft 4.

@WarblesOnALot 2 жыл бұрын

G'day, Not nit-picking, more offering constructive criticism as feedback. The fact that an Automobile has been converted to burn Wood, or Charcoal, does NOT indicate that it has turned into a Steam driven vehicle. If Wood or Charcoal is put in a closed metal vessel and either heated by a surrounding fire, or by burning the Fuel in a restricted Airflow..., then the heated fuel produces first Water Vapour, and then a mixture of Hydrogen and Methane and Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide and Creosote. These hot Gasses can be cooled, scrubbed of CO-2, filtered, and then fed into the intake-manifold of any regular Spark-ignition 4-stroke Piston Engine, which if first started on Petrol will will then continue to run on the gasseous mixture. Weakly and anaemically, producing about half the power it would on Petrol, and every 200 hours/1,000 miles or so the Cylinder Head needs removing for disassembly and decarbonising and grinding the Valves. My father built a Charcoal Burner for his car in 1943, in NSW, Australia, it's in the local Museum these past 45 years. Problems included that such things involved driving around with a roaring Fire attached to the Car, producing poisonous explosive Gasses at the back of the Car - piped underfloor to the front of the vehicle to the Intercooler before going into the Engine. Gas-Leaks, causing loss of consciousness causing crashes, resulting in fires or explosions..., were among the pitfalls and traps for beginners. There is abundant good doccumentation that Wood-Gas and Charcoal-Gas Producers having been used by all Nations participating in WW-2...; but there is zero doccumentation of any Nation having converted their existing Vehicles to Steam Power. In Britain they fitted rectangular Fabric Gas-Bags on to the roofs of some Delivery Vans, to hold maybe 500 or 1,000 cubic feet of Coal ("Town") Gas, at slightly more (1.05 ?) than Atmospheric pressure, achieved with an overlying Net pulled down on the Bag by springs or elastic straps. Coal Gas is also odourless, poisonous, flamable and explosive. Replacing Petrol is HARD, and it always has been. Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

@j.b.4340 Жыл бұрын

His story sounds a bit too much like the 1944 film, “Resisting Enemy Interrogation”.

@georgielancaster1356 2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't believe nobody was, from the beginning, warned that their rooms and bathrooms were likely bugged. Before their first ops. It shouldn't have been a matter of spotting bugs. It's not like this was early in the war. The Americans got there late and most of this info was pretty well known. Am surprised, too, how happily a chap is confirming info, sharing info. Whether or not he believed the info was unimportant, or that other crew members had been through earlier and had apparently shared info. Were they warned that German stooges were put in with the pows, to pretend to be other allied crew men?

@stevemartin6144 Жыл бұрын

This did occur (stooges) but it was extremely rare. The Germans tried this in Stalag Luft 3 just once. It took the POWS only a matter of hours to discover that the supposed POW was a plant. They informed German staff that if he were not removed from the camp, they would kill him. He vanished and the Germans never attempted this again.

@KungFuHonky 7 ай бұрын

A shower was a God send. I've talked to infantry at battle of the Bulge who said with no apparent exaggeration they would have given $1,000 for a shower. And that was $1,000 in 1944.

@dwls9986 8 ай бұрын

0:45 "Wood gas" Wkipedia

@georgielancaster1356 2 жыл бұрын

I am not prepared to check. Is that Tim Robert using this channel to promote trashy sex?

@craigm.9070 2 жыл бұрын

Reported

@chairlesnicol672 Жыл бұрын

GEORGIE LANCASTER so what's the story was Tim Roberts up to no good or not ?

@skpjoecoursegold366 2 жыл бұрын

Ray, did the men tell these stories to someone before they were sent home?

@raymondmcfalone26 2 жыл бұрын

Joe - no, to my knowledge they were never debriefed.

@alangarrett1181 Жыл бұрын

I always wondered how in the world the Germans able to find out which high school these guys graduated from and all other sorts of other information before the Internet? I worked in Frankfurt 40 years after WWII and met a bunch of the guys who would have known. I just never asked.

@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry Жыл бұрын

The full extent of Axis intelligence activity in North America and the British Isles is, I fear, somewhat at variance with the official story told to us since WWII ended. We're allowed to know so much about Soviet intelligence penetration, but the British still have many WWII intelligence records that remain classified, and the US likely has many that are buried so deep it will be decades before researchers stumble across them.

@rosesprog1722 Жыл бұрын

@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry Winning a war allows you to lie, hide or distort the truth to perpetrate the false idea that it's the good guys who win wars when in fact it's the always the most vicious, cruel, unpredictable, cheating and murderous bastards who win, war is no place for good guys SO, no choice, the have to lie to present themselves as better than they were, and the enemy much worse than he really was.

@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry Жыл бұрын

@@rosesprog1722 I think it's adequately documented that the Axis forces were at least as bad as they've been presented, and possibly even a great deal more. Within five years of the war ending, people in the West were marvelling over how "western" the Japanese had become, or how "brave" the West Germans were (in fact, neither had much choice). Plenty got swept under the rug in the name of the Cold War, and it's a fact that numerous assorted war criminals escaped with the aid of western intelligence agencies and institutions. In recent decades scholars have been more willing to view Churchill in particular with a less jaundiced eye, acknowledging and questioning the hand he had in writing the dominant narrative of WWII which unsurprisingly ommitted those actions of his that were less than glorious. But as I mentioned, there's likely a great deal more to be learned that remains concealed in the bureaucratic black hole. You have rather good taste in music, by the way.

@rosesprog1722 Жыл бұрын

@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry Oh, thank you, you are very kind. I am sure you are aware that what we know or rather what we were told about WW2 is the winner's version, the one where one side was all good and the other all bad, just like the Nuremberg trials demonstrated. How can you have a fair trial when your judge is your enemy and how can you have correct history when you only have one half of it, for example allied narratives of WW2 all begin with the Invasion of Poland, as if the world popped into existence on that day, did you ever see a documentary describing the events that led to that invasion? I did not, I had to dig in official ambassadorial communications to begin to have an idea of the actual facts of the matter, the Germans were and still are not allowed to give their version of facts but everything I ever saw, by that I mean looking further than or behind the crimes attributed to the Germans more than confirm that most were invented after the end of the war by people who would benefit from such a distorted version of history, like Churchill famously said: "I am not afraid of history, for I intend to write it myself". Continued...

@rosesprog1722 Жыл бұрын

Hardly anyone knows what happened to the people of Germany after the end of WW2, the Morgenthau plan, JCS 1067 and 1799, those who had nothing to do with the war, most say that they got what they deserved because they approved of crimes such as human soap or human skin lampshades... which is nonsense, of course. The German rules of engagement were very strict and did not allow for criminal behavior as usually described, for example the Commissar order: the monstrous Germans were told that they wouldn't face justice if the murdered commissars and partisans... but no one mentions that Stalin had refused to sign any war conventions so most of the captured Germans were not only killed on the spot, but viciously tortured like most were found with eyes gouged out and sexual parts stuffed in their mouths. Therefore you cannot obey rules fighting those who have none, hence that order. So, I have been researching and collecting and digging for quite a while now and except for witness testimonies, I have found very few documented confirmations of German crimes, you say it's been adequately proven, maybe you could tell me where I could find such documents, I would certainly appreciate. Here's what Sefton Delmer from British propaganda (look him up) said at the end of the war, that explains why people even today still hate the Germans with passion, 80 years after the end of the war. Continued...