Key Information
Reference code
BERLIN AIRLIFT 32
Title
Interview with US Air Force Col Wolfgang Samuel re life as child in post-war Germany, [1997-1998]
Date(s)
- [1997 - 1998] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
59pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of interview with Col Wolfgang Samuel, German civilian, (later US Air Force), describing conditions in 1945 in East Germany as a 10 year old, escaping to the West with his family, the black market, prostitution, perceptions of war, attitudes to Soviet forces, British and American soldiers, experience of the airlift while living near Fassberg airfield in 1948-1949, meeting US airman-later his stepfather. 59pp