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TI: So any other, any other thoughts or memories of Dachau when you went there? Did the men ever talk about what they had seen and what was happening?

VW: Oh, yeah, and a lot of guys did, during that time, they talked a lot about it, and how... and I, sometimes you wondered, you could hardly believe the pictures that they had taken, and they quick-developed 'em. It was surprising. And, but it was pretty rugged, but there their pictures were. They were all right there. And to have somebody here in the United States say, or from Iran or somewhere say the Holocaust never happened, well, that's a big laugh because I was there. I saw it.

TI: When you think about doing this, so you're one of probably a few individuals who actually really were able to witness this, the liberation, how has that changed you?

VW: Well, it shows that you gotta watch what people do to people. And it kind of reminded me a little bit about our people being, the Japanese Americans, or people of Japanese descent having to go on internment camp. Now, we were, they were treated better, of course, but still. They had to leave without taking anything with 'em, whatever they could carry, and that's an awful way to treat an American or anybody really. But, and they found absolutely nothing of any sabotage work or anything from the Japanese Americans, none whatsoever. And they've never had, they've never been able to find anything. So they had no reason to do that at all, other than just prejudice.

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