Hitler Youth - POW

My biggest enjoyment was at Falaise Gap. We went there, I think, one Sunday. They got a bunch of us to go and . . .oh, there was . . . we took thousands of German prisoners there, and we were there to, like, just, to be, walk, along, alongside of them to take them back to the cages, like, you know. And my biggest enjoyment was this little . . . we gave them ten minute break, like, and this little German Hitler Youth guy was there, and he was just snarling at me, you know, and I was getting mad just looking at him, you know, because we'd give him this break, and he was sitting there. And when, when it was time to go, like, we had, you know, we had a bunch of Germans and had carriers and then a bunch of Germans . . . I, I don't know how many, hundreds or thousands we had at that time. So, I told him, I said, "Come on. Get up." And he just snarled, so I reached down and grabbed him by the collar and give him a yanking and kind of pulled him by me, and I hit him a kick in the ass, and his bundle fell open. And the, and the mud was about a foot deep like you know, like. Everybody was walking there and the machinery and, oh, they’d been fighting there for about, you know, eight, ten, nine days. So, that, that was right full of photographs, and then I wouldn't let him pick any up, but, of course, they were all in the mud, anyway. And, now, he must have had a thousand of them in there, because the bundle was about this big in the, in the little army blanket. And then he started to cry, then.