Grave or Waste Dump

They found a, a German, like the German prisoners were going through, but the SS were, anytime it's a SS, they'd kinda pick on them. And this kid, he was supposed to have been in the SS, and one of his people had ratted on him to, to the thing. So for unknown reasons they kept him and they give him, I remember like I was in charge of the gun crew and put him, and then he said "Put him to work", so I, the cook wanted a sump pit to put garbage in and he really, well our cook we made a lot, more went in the garbage than, but anyhow. Marked out a spot about this size, give the guy a shovel and start digging. Well, the funny part was that house is empty and the house next door and there were just a farm but they were just, oh, this far apart. That's where they had moved some families in, all women and that. They're lined along the fence crying. We're sitting there, the kid's digging away and they're looking at him, "Keep on, keep on digging", and they're crying and bawling. Never even entered our mind, they thought he was digging his grave, and so when after we went "OK, that's enough" and he was helping the cook and I come in that night at suppertime, put my mess tin out, he filled it with potatoes right.

Interviewer: So thankful to be there.
But, I mean, he was digging a little bit and would stop. Never even entered my mind, you know just dicking, you know I was sitting there B.S.'n, and all the these women crying.

Interviewer: They were concerned for his life.
Oh, they figured right away that meant German-style, were afraid we going to shoot him.