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KL: Do you have questions? I just have one kind of wrap up one and then want to give Midori and Sat their chance to add...

LP: Yeah, I had a question about, when you were talking about Germany and the devastation and everything just being in Munich totally obliterated, what information if anything at all was being given about what was going on in Europe to people that were in camp? Did it line up with what you envisioned, like when you got to Munich, was it just utterly surprising that things looked that way, or what information?

ST: There was no information disseminated about the, you know, about Germany.

MS: You wrote us letters, but you never said anything about how bad it looked or anything. Just what you did and who you, what you saw and everything.

LP: Was there ever any information about, like, the death camps or any, what the Jewish population had been going through.

ST: Not really. I passed one of those camps going back and forth from Augsburg to Munich, but never saw it.

LP: How did you know that it was one of those camps?

ST: We were told.

LP: And my last question is actually about the post office. So I just assumed that the post office was sorting mail and whatever, but when you were in the service, what did working for the post office mean? What were you tasked with?

ST: Well, I was in charge of a little post office at headquarters, and I had two employees and ran a little post office. And most of our business was writing money orders. They all sent in, sent money home. We traded cigarettes for money.

LP: Was there any censoring of mail that had to be done or anything like that that you're aware of?

ST: Any what?

LP: Censoring? Like mail at that time just totally open and people could do whatever? Okay.

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