Joining with Occupation Troops

The guys that were going to the Occupation, they took us out and we drove over to Germany into Holland, into Appledorn, formed up the occupation troops. We had our patches, the colours, the 2nd Division were blue and 3rd Division was blue, but pale blue, like the Air Force blue. So they give the name of the Occupation the 3rd Division because they were the ones that had went over on D-Day and had the square patch with the small thin one down at the bottom, that meant you were in the Occupation Troop. So the war ended in May and on the 1st of June, we moved, my outfit moved back into Oldenburg and from there first thing we started doing, first we would transfer a lot of displaced personnel around here and there and then they started weeding out the Germans, the ordinary soldiers, you know, and the SS Troopers and that stuff like that. The SS Troopers, they put them in one of the concentration camps outside of Hamburg. We loaded a bunch on, we loaded I think 20 truckloads of Germans, just ordinary German prisoners, they would take them in this big camp and discharge them, they weeded them out and discharged them out but the SS Troopers was on my truck and another truck, they loaded them on a truck and they would put them in the, it was the first time I was in one of those places where they killed a lot of the Jewish people, went in there and you could still smell that, it was awful, so they dropped them off into the concentration camp.