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He was the youngest of six children born to Thomas Gordon and Sara Elizabeth (Henderson) Hardeman. Roy had four older sisters and one older brother. He was raised in an area known as “Poll Town” between Buckhead and Sandy Springs. His father worked various jobs including as street peddler, farm laborer, and later owned a taxi cab company.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e Roy signed up to serve in the United States Army in April 1941and was discharged in December 1945. From 1941-1943, he was stationed at Fort Ord in California where he served as an ordnance soldier. In late 1943, he was shipped to Europe, where he continued so serve as an ordnance soldier in the Third Army, which was commanded by General George S. Patton. During his service during World War II, he received 4-battle stars.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the war he returned to Atlanta, Georgia, where he worked at the Ford Motor Company until his retirement. On June 19, 1947, he married Evelyn Darsey Hardeman. They had two children, a son and a daughter. In 1949, Roy started preaching and became a licensed minister on October 8, 1952. He was later ordained as a Baptist Minister on October 21, 1954. He served as a bi-vocational minister for over 50 years, serving at various churches in North Georgia and was later Pastor Emeritus of Atlanta Street Baptist Church in Roswell, Georgia. He passed away in November 2011 and is buried at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Spring, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThe interview focuses on Roy’s time in the U.S. Army during World War II and the things he saw while serving in California and Europe. He recalls being drafted in 1941 and going through basic training at Fort Stewart and doing maneuvers in the Carolinas. He discusses his time serving with his ordnance company at Fort Ord in California. He reflects on the concern about a Japanese invasion on the West Coast. Roy also talks about being shipped to Europe in late 1943 and the preparation prior to the D-Day Invasion. He discusses the work his ordnance company did for the Third Army and the difficult conditions they occasionally had to work and live under.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRoy describes in great detail what he witnessed at a liberated concentration camp located near Gotha, Germany. He expressed dismay of what he saw and the Nazis who carried out the actions. He also remembered where he was when the war ended and how he spent his time in Europe until he was shipped back to the United States in December 1945. Roy spoke about how little combat his company experienced and spoke about the events that happened to those in his unit. He also reflected on how he coped with what he saw, how people worked together to prepare for war, and his experiences returning home.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28891"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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He was the youngest of six children born to Thomas Gordon and Sara Elizabeth (Henderson) Hardeman. Roy had four older sisters and one older brother. He was raised in an area known as \u0026ldquo;Poll Town\u0026rdquo; between Buckhead and Sandy Springs. His father worked various jobs including as street peddler, farm laborer, and later owned a taxi cab company.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;Roy signed up to serve in the United States Army in April 1941and was discharged in December 1945. From 1941-1943, he was stationed at Fort Ord in California where he served as an ordnance soldier. In late 1943, he was shipped to Europe, where he continued so serve as an ordnance soldier in the Third Army, which was commanded by General George S. Patton. During his service during World War II, he received 4-battle stars.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the war he returned to Atlanta, Georgia, where he worked at the Ford Motor Company until his retirement. On June 19, 1947, he married Evelyn Darsey Hardeman. They had two children, a son and a daughter. In 1949, Roy started preaching and became a licensed minister on October 8, 1952. He was later ordained as a Baptist Minister on October 21, 1954. He served as a bi-vocational minister for over 50 years, serving at various churches in North Georgia and was later Pastor Emeritus of Atlanta Street Baptist Church in Roswell, Georgia. He passed away in November 2011 and is buried at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Spring, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe interview focuses on Roy\u0026rsquo;s time in the U.S. Army during World War II and the things he saw while serving in California and Europe. He recalls being drafted in 1941 and going through basic training at Fort Stewart and doing maneuvers in the Carolinas. He discusses his time serving with his ordnance company at Fort Ord in California. He reflects on the concern about a Japanese invasion on the West Coast. Roy also talks about being shipped to Europe in late 1943 and the preparation prior to the D-Day Invasion. He discusses the work his ordnance company did for the Third Army and the difficult conditions they occasionally had to work and live under.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRoy describes in great detail what he witnessed at a liberated concentration camp located near Gotha, Germany. He expressed dismay of what he saw and the Nazis who carried out the actions. He also remembered where he was when the war ended and how he spent his time in Europe until he was shipped back to the United States in December 1945. Roy spoke about how little combat his company experienced and spoke about the events that happened to those in his unit. He also reflected on how he coped with what he saw, how people worked together to prepare for war, and his experiences returning home.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I don't know exactly. But in April, in 1941.\n\nWEINROTH: How long when you were drafted . . . were you thinking you were only\ngoing to be in the service for . . . ?\n\nHARDEMAN: Well, they had the draft for one year.\n\nWEINROTH: One year.\n\nHARDEMAN: My whole ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"little company that I was in was drafted before the war\nstarted and form[ed].\n\nWEINROTH: You felt that your obligation was going to be for a year in the service.\n\nHARDEMAN: To start with. Well, of course, we knew that Hitler was on the move.\nI'm sure that probably the officials, the president and so forth knew it was\ncoming. I believe that. It had to come.\n\nWEINROTH: Where did you receive your basic training after you were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"drafted?\n\nHARDEMAN: We were drafted . . . went through Fort Mac [Fort McPherson, East\nPoint, Georgia] here. And then we did our basic training down at Fort Stewart\n[Georgia]. It was Camp Stewart back in those days. We did our basic training\nthere. I might add, if I may, that our company was made up of men from North and\nSouth Carolina and Georgia, and we had one or two from Alabama. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So the whole\nlittle company was about 100. Anywhere . . . we ran out from maybe 115 to 130 in\nour company.\n\nWEINROTH: When you refer to a company, you're talking about a group of guys . . .\n\nHARDEMAN: I'm talking about . . . our outfit was called the 34/82 ordnance.\nWEINROTH: The eighty-second ordnance. This was about 115 to 130 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"guys. Did you\nhave friends that were actually in that same company from Atlanta? Did you know anyone?\n\nHARDEMAN: No, except there was a guy, Robert Shannon, that lives south of\nAtlanta. He and I went into Buckhead [Georgia]. That was a draft place there . .\n. they took us from there. I met him then and we went through the whole war in\nthe same company.\n\nWEINROTH: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He became a buddy on the first day you were drafted?\n\nHARDEMAN: Yes.\n\nWEINROTH: Where after you went through basic training? You mentioned this was in\nHinesville at Fort Stewart, where were you sent?\n\nHARDEMAN: Well, from there, after we took basic training. We were on maneuvers\nup in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Carolinas . . . if I remember right around three months. Then we came\nback to Camp Stewart . . . that would have been in the wintertime. I don't\nremember whether . . . we probably came back up there in maybe latter part of\nOctober or November. They set it up that we would get a furlough half of us at\nChristmas and half then at New ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Year's. I happened to be lucky enough to get one\nfor Christmas. A few days before Christmas, I came home and I hadn't been here\nlong until I got word to get back. We were moving out. Now, that was in December\nand they told us that we were scheduled to go to the Philippines. We got on the\ntrain ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Atlanta, a few days before Christmas. I don't know, it took several\ndays to go, but we went to California to Fort Ord. In the meantime, we got\norders that the Philippines had fallen and so they set us up in Fort Ord. We\nwere there for between two and three years. We had a big shop right on the coast\nat Fort ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ord, and we worked on vehicles. GMC trucks and jeeps and weapons\ncarriers and whatever. We serviced the Coast Guard people up and down the coast,\nand people would bring their . . . companies would bring their vehicles in and\nwe'd work on them. 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We\nserviced that area of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Coast Guard between two and three years and then we were\ntold all of a sudden that we were going to Europe. Then we got on a train and\nwent to Massachusetts. I can't remember that port there where we sail from.\n\nWEINROTH: What do you remember what year that would have been in, from going\nfrom California and being shipped over to Massachusetts? What year that was?\n\nHARDEMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You know, let's see . . . I didn't mention this a while ago. We pulled\ninto Fort Ord on Christmas Day. We were there. Let's see that would been in\n1941, 1942, 1943. It must have been in the latter part, I'm not sure about this.\nThis is where you got me. I'm not sure whether it was the latter part of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1943\nthat we . . . got on a train and went to . . .\n\nWEINROTH: . . . Massachusetts.\n\nHARDEMAN: What is that port? I can't think of where we were sailing from.\n\nWEINROTH: . . . Not Boston.\n\nHARDEMAN: Anyway, it would have been the latter part of 1943 or the first part\nof 1944. 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So I\ndidn't get back home until December of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1945.\n\nWEINROTH: When you were stationed in California, working in this production area\nfor the jeeps and the other vehicles that you were working on and you were there\nfor a good long time for two or three years, did you feel like maybe you weren't\ngoing to see battle?\n\nHARDEMAN: Well, we didn't know. In other words, in the army, you take training\nand you do what they tell you to do. 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But they sent us to Europe and we\ngot into England several months before the invasion because there's building up.\nIn other words, if you lived in England and you had a room that you wasn't using\nand you had to let ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the G.I.s have it to put up bunk beds, all over England. I\nwas there at least three months before the invasion, which was in the spring. If\nI'm right [it was] 1944 when they made the invasion across the channel.\n\nWEINROTH: Which invasion are you talking about?\n\nHARDEMAN: I'm talking about when the Allies invaded France and Germany.\n\nWEINROTH: In Normandy.\n\nHARDEMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. Of course, they'd been fighting in Africa years before then. Our\njob after we got over there was to follow the front lines and work on vehicles\nwherever we could. Mostly in the woods. 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How did you remember ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"adjusting and\ntolerating all these changes in your life at that point?\n\nHARDEMAN: You just have to do what you have to do. When you're young and in good\nhealth, you can do it. In other words . . . you had the company . . . our little\ncompany was like family. You just . . . 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But the first thing we would do would be . . .\nwith your partner, you would dig ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a foxhole. We didn't maybe have to sleep in it\nbecause if we were far enough back, but if we heard airplanes, why . . . we had\nto get in them and so forth. We slept sometime in pup tent, you know what that\nis? Where you have a half a tent, your partner has a half tent . . . you put it\ntogether. But you [were] talking about how you cope with that . . . That's just\npart of it . . . living ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the woods and living on the move like that. I was\nassigned a truck. I drove a truck through the war and I had an assistant driver.\nPart of the time, it had a big GM truck and it had a canvas over it. And part of\nthe time . . . I had a piece of the thing that came out of a bus that was long\nenough to lay down and I could sleep in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that thing. If I had a foxhole and I had\nto get out and get in it . . . We had it good, really, in a way, our company, we\ndidn't have to do any fighting. Although we were maybe shelled a few times and\ngot in a few tight places . . . We had a gun.\n\nWEINROTH: I was going to ask, how much combat did you see or how involved in combat?\n\nHARDEMAN: Well, we [weren't] involved in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"combat. We did capture a few Germans\ntwo or three different times, and we would turn them into a place. When we would\npull in a place . . . I don't whether I should be telling this or not. Am I\ngoing out . . .?\n\nWEINROTH: You're doing fine, this is great.\n\nHARDEMAN: But when we pull in a place the captain would put out four outpost\nguard posts surrounding the company wherever we'd put up, and there would be\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"three people for 24 hours. I remember one time we put up close to a railroad and\nthere were some Germans that had been cut off and they're trying to get back to\ntheir units. They came down the railroad, so we captured them . . . two or three\ndifferent times. Then there at the last they would almost flag you down to give\nup . . . at the end.\n\nWEINROTH: Ready to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"surrender.\n\nHARDEMAN: Yes. I'm talking too much, I know. You know, you ask questions.\n\nWEINROTH: You're doing great. I wanted to ask you, toward the end of the war,\ndid you have an experience, any experiences of going into any concentration\ncamps in Europe?\n\nHARDEMAN: Yes. I went into a small camp. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's the reason I want to tell this .\n. . being I have discussed this with the doctor and he is the one that contacted\nyou people. Yes, we were in Patton's Army. When the Allies came up on this place\nand it was a small place . . . by the way. If I'm right, the little town was\ncalled Gotha and I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think it would have been G-O-L-T-H-A [G-O-T-H-A] or something\nlike that. This little camp, it was a small camp. If you want me to, I want to\ngo into details on that now.\n\nWEINROTH: Yes, please.\n\nHARDEMAN: That's the reason I am doing [this].\n\nWEINROTH: I want you to describe . . .\n\nHARDEMAN: The reason we were there, Patton wanted us to see it. He carried truck\nloads of different outfits through that place for us to see. 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We were told that the people that ran the camp, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the ones that\n[were] kept that was able, they carried them with them. The ones that [weren't]\nthey just left and they shot them. So that was the first scene, about probably\n18 to 24 bodies. They told us that there was different nationalities of people.\nWe were told that there was one American flier in there, a pilot that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had been\nshot down. Then they carried us . . . I don't know hardly how to start this.\nThey carried us in a little building that had an incinerator in it. They had\nbodies that had evidently starved to death. They had them stacked head to foot\nand had them lined down . . . just stacks of them in this little building with\nthe incinerator over here. 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While they were healthy\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"enough to walk around, we didn't know. Also we went . . . they us carried in a\nplace where they had little old . . . I think it was straw mattresses, just like\none laying here and a bowl. There was a bowl just about that big on each one of\nthem. 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But ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anyway, that day that they carried us through\nthere, they had bulldozers and they [were] digging trenches and burying those\npeople. [They] just buried them . . . I guess wrapped in plastic or something\nand buried them. Now I'm going to tell you something you may not want to use,\nbut while we were going through ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there and this guy . . . we were following a man\naround and he is telling us about what went on and showing us different things.\nAll of a sudden there's a guy came by me or two guys and one of them picked up a\nchair and hit this guy in the head. He didn't know what hit him. Now, that's\n[the] guy that was telling us, leading us through, and then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they had a bayonet.\nYou know what a bayonet [is] where it hooks on a gun . . . they had one. There's\ntwo of them guys, one of them was Russian, I think, and another. It was two\nguys. . . We were told that these were two guys that the SS troops had made whip\npeople and punish people. They kept them healthy. They looked healthy. But they\ntook that bayonet and they killed that man right there on the spot. Then they\nhold it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"up . . . I had pictures where [the] blood running down, and they just\nhad such revenge. They just kept throwing that thing. That man didn't know what\nhit him. Now that's what we were told that this guy that was leading us was one\nof the SS guards that had help run that camp and had these two guys do their\ndirty ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"work. It's hard to believe that man can stoop as low. What hurts me,\nbreaks my heart. That people say that didn't happen, that the Holocaust, it was\nnothing to it. When we know. I know what I saw. Somebody took pictures. I don't\nknow whether it somebody in our outfit. But I brought some pictures home and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nhad pictures of this death. I had pictures of what I'm telling you about some of\nit. But they disappeared. I think some of my family destroyed them because they\ndidn't want me . . . You see what I'm talking about? They completely\ndisappeared, every one of them.\n\nWEINROTH: Do you know, Mr. Hardiman, what the name of that camp was?\n\nHARDEMAN: I don't. I'm sorry. I don't know. I do remember that the little town\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was called Gotha. Have you ever heard of it?\n\nWEINROTH: No, but you told us that and we can check on that.\n\nHARDEMAN: I don't know what it was near. Then from then . . . it was winding\ndown. Patton really was on the move . . . it wasn't too long after then until\nthe war ended. Then we went through . . . I can mention ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two important towns that\nwe went through. We went through France into Germany and we wound up in\nRegensburg. That's where I was when the war ended. We were living in boxcars\nthat was lined up in this town and it was about 75 miles, if I remember, south\nof Nuremberg. And you remember Nuremberg now was a home of Nazism. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You could not\nfind . . . we worked there for two or three weeks. You could not find a building\nin that town that hadn't been bombed because the Allies had just [bombed it] . .\n. and it just thrilled us good to see them planes going over. We'd say, go get\nthem glamor boys. You can see them go, we'd see planes. The Allies . . . the\nAmericans bombed in daytime and the British bombed at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"night. When we were in\nEngland, you would see those planes going out at night bombing. So that's about\nsum of it . . . in the spring. Was it in May when it was over?\n\nWEINROTH: I think so. May of 1945.\n\nHARDEMAN: May of 1945 and we left off then. They sent us quickly back to La\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Havre, France and said we is coming back to the States and go to Japan. And they\ndid, they sent us right back to La Havre and we stayed there 30 days . . .\ntrying to think that we were going to get on a boat and come to America. Then\nour captain went into Paris and asked the general what was going on. He said,\n\"You all have been frozen.\" He said, anywhere in Europe that we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have troops. . .\nwhere we have ordnance troops. In other words, the people that worked on the\nvehicles, we'll send you. So he said, send us to Brussels, Belgium. We got on\nthe old forty and eight train cars and went into Belgium and into there. We\nstayed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there and just more or less we winterized tanks. We worked a day or two\nand be off a day or two and play ball, just killing time until we could get back\nto the states.\n\nWEINROTH: How long were you in Brussels before you actually left to go back to\nthe United States? Can you remember approximately?\n\nHARDEMAN: Well, let's see. I said is over in the spring.\n\nWEINROTH: Right.\n\nHARDEMAN: I'd say within a month we went into the La Havre and stayed there\nabout a month. Then what would that have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"been about . . . probably July. We went\nin . . . I'm just guess . . . we were there for a good while. . .\n\nWEINROTH: . . . In Brussels?\n\nHARDEMAN: Yes.\n\nWEINROTH: I have a couple of questions. One question was, you said that Patton\nwanted people to see what was in the camp. Why do you suppose . . .\n\nHARDEMAN: He wanted to make us mad. 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And that's what ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"happened in Germany. It's sad that one idiot\ncaused what he did. By the way, we would not have won . . . that war would not\nhave been won if America had not got into it. When we declared war on Japan and\non Germany, people went to work here. We had to build up everything . . . When I\nwent in the army, they didn't even have clothes. I had an old cap. It is too big\nfor me. I had to put a pin, it stuck out, for me to wear it. We had to wear\nwoolens in the summertime down in Camp Stewart because we didn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have . . . they\nstarted building. Everybody went to work. Everybody pulled together. The Lord\nlet us win that war.\n\nWEINROTH: How did you as a young man ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from, you said you were sort of a mama's\nboy, how did you handle seeing these horrible things in this camp? How did you\ncope with that?\n\nHARDEMAN: Well, it's just something that . . . I don't know. Just going to war\nis a terrible thing. I hate to think what would happen in a nuclear war. But ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in\nanother thing, too, you know, this mess we're in now where this all these idiots\nwill blow themselves up just to kill innocent people. Back then, we knew who we\nwas fighting, and we knew who the enemy was. I remember the first thing I saw\nafter we went into France was a GMC truck with a load of dead Americans. Now,\nthat really hit me. That ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"shows you the beginning of what war is. But I'm\ngrateful that I had that experience and that I could be a little help to the\ncountry. I mean, people were patriotic. They had respect for the flag.\n\nWEINROTH: And people were united ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/76858/file/163585/transcript/39167/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"behind this effort.\n\nHARDEMAN: Yes, they were. Everybody was good to the troops when you were in\nAmerica traveling. People were so good to the troops.\n\nWEINROTH: I have a couple more questions I wanted to ask you. Do you know of the\noriginal company that you were with? You said between 115 and 130 men. How many\nof those fellows came back? 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As dictator of Nazi Germany, he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and was a central figure of the Holocaust.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdolf Hitler applied for entrance into the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria twice and was twice rejected, once in 1907 and again in 1908. For the next five years, Hitler struggled to earn money by selling small paintings, mostly images of buildings and other landmarks in Vienna that he copied from postcards. By 1914, Hitler was serving in World War I and would later enter politics. In his autobiographical manifesto, Mein Kampf, Hitler claimed that his antisemitic views formed during his time as a struggling artist in Vienna. 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In late 1943, Camp Stewart became a designed holding area for German and Italian prisoners of war (POW), who had fallen into Allied hands during fighting in North Africa. It also was a Cooks' and Bakers' School and served as a staging area for a number of Army postal units. In spring 1944, more than 55,000 soldiers occupied the fort during the build up to the D-Day Invasion. By 1945, the anti-aircraft training had been phased out and only the POW camp was still operating. Fort Stewart remains an active military base having served as a training and staging area during the Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam War. 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