George R. Allen Papers

Résumé du livre

General description of the collection: The George R. Allen papers consist of his typescript memoirs (448 pages) of Army basic, language, and interrogator training as well as duty as an interrogator in the European Theater of Operations (ETO). He was assigned to intelligence teams in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment/101st Airborne Division. Reminiscences of information gleaned from his and others' interrogations of concentration camp survivors, prisoners of war (POWs), displaced persons, Hitler's stenographers, Hitler's sister, and Nazi officers and officials are contained within. Topics include his training as an interrogator; conditions in POW and concentration camps; German relations with Spain, Bulgaria, and Turkey; Nazi-seized art; armaments; post-war local governments; assassination attempt on Hitler, meetings with Hitler; Irwin Rommel's death; and the last days of the war in Berlin.