Posted on May 9, 2015
Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor recalls VE Day
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“There was no ‘hooray for us,’ just ‘the damn thing is over, let’s get home.’”
http://www.stripes.com/news/us/last-surviving-nuremberg-prosecutor-recalls-ve-day-1.345272
http://www.stripes.com/news/us/last-surviving-nuremberg-prosecutor-recalls-ve-day-1.345272
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SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S., what an extraordinary story about Benjamin Ferencz. My father, who served in the Navy in the Pacific during WWII is still alive and kicking! (Update: my father passed away on 10SEP15.) He was aboard ship in the Pacific on VE Day.
My uncle (now deceased), Sergeant George Brooks Curlee served with the 70th Infantry Division "Trailblazers" during World War II. The 70th spearheaded the Seventh United States Army's drive into Germany, south of Saarbrücken. He was wounded, and MIA for a brief period of time until he was found in an Army hospital. He was still in Europe on VE Day.
This photo of my uncle was taken on the Rhine River near the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen not long after its capture in March 1945.
My uncle (now deceased), Sergeant George Brooks Curlee served with the 70th Infantry Division "Trailblazers" during World War II. The 70th spearheaded the Seventh United States Army's drive into Germany, south of Saarbrücken. He was wounded, and MIA for a brief period of time until he was found in an Army hospital. He was still in Europe on VE Day.
This photo of my uncle was taken on the Rhine River near the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen not long after its capture in March 1945.
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Sgt David G Duchesneau
Back in the mid 90s, after I retired from the State Police, I was approached by the Federal Government to be on a Team, a Task Force, to hunt down and locate Nazi War Criminals that were hiding out here in the US.
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Sgt David G Duchesneau
It's a long story but I can tell you that it was very interesting. We were tasked on trying to locate old German men who were believed to be hiding out here in the US, New York, PA, Florida, Connecticut and Maine. We had names, aliases, dates of birth and old addresses. Once in a while, we were able to locate the individual because they were just too old to keep relocating. Every few years, the GSA still puts out a General Solicitations to conduct these type of investigations. I can assure you that the work is very tedious but also very rewarding. You would be surprised at some of the names of these WWII War Criminals that we searched for right here in the States.
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What an amazing article. Visiting Nuremberg and the camps are humbling to say the least. I couldn't even imagine living it.
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