Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 57
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he was from was keeping a package of fingernails that
they had taken off of people getting them to tell stories
about downed fliers and things. He said he saw a German
truck one day just for no reason at all veer up on a
sidewalk and run over a bunch of people. I'm beginning
to let you know how I began to feel about the German
soldiers. I don't think an American GI would ever do
something like that. But anyway, he had these thoughts,
and he said that every German baby when it was born
they should snap its head off. I mean, it just scared
you how this man . . . he was just terrible. And we
tried to talk him into some sense, but there was a "Spit"
pilot there--a Spitfire pilot--who had been with him
maybe three or four days, and he said, "You just can't
change this man. He's crazy. He's just nuts. They'll
kill him." So they called us out, and I remember the
Battle of the Bulge had started, and they called us out
to tell us that they were going to the sea and our goose
was really cooked and all this and that. And they also
called you out twice a day to count you, so they were
counting us, and they asked certain questions of men as
they walked by them. And some German--one of the guards
or the soldiers--walked up to this fellow and asked him
a question. We knew . . . you know, he just . . . God,
he hated. It's terrible to have hate. And he spit in
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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/m1/59/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.