Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 80
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brought food into this one room, and one of them dropped
dead. One of them had a baby, and one of them just had
no control over his bowels, and they just went completely
bananas over this food. And this was part of the people
that were persecuted by the responsible authority of
Germany, and, of course, we couldn't believe it. This
man was sick. We thought he was lying, but we knew he
wasn't. He couldn't lie. And then, of course, we later
heard of all the terrible camps, but he told us that one
night, and this was a . . .
In other words, these were political prisoners of some
sort.
Some sort, yes. We knew nothing of it, but the Russians,
I guess, had a vicious hatred because I guess when you're
on the ground and seeing all these you would get pretty
rough with the populace. But I don't think that could
happen in this country, but maybe it could. But anyway,
this was something that might be worth asking people as
you go along. This guy told us that, but I didn't see it.
I'd like to give you another tremendous impression
I had. I could go on, but we were flown to France. I
remember we were in a B-17, and they took us out, and we
were getting out of the airplane on the airstrip on the
apron in a city called Rouen in France, when the treaty
was signed. But there was a guy walking out of a mess
hall, and he was eating a piece of white bread, and everyman ran over just to see the white bread. I remember that
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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/m1/82/?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.