By Eric A. Johnson - What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany (12906) by Eric A. Johnson

Author:Eric A. Johnson [ERIC A. JOHNSON AND KARL-HEINZ REUBAND]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00HTK9PXM
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2006-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Were you drafted immediately?

No. I first became a soldier in 1940 after the western campaign was already over. Everything had gone quickly until 1940, and then I became a soldier. At first I was in the infantry in Wiesbaden, and then I attended a special training course for infantry engineers because they needed people who knew something about mining. From there, when it was finished, I was transferred to Bucharest because of [my ability] in the French language. I was the only person in the entire battalion who could speak French. Under Hitler, foreign languages were forbidden—there had been no foreign languages in the Gymnasiums. As they told me, “If you know how to speak French, you’ll learn Romanian quickly as well.”

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