Witnessing Both Sides of War

It was most difficult for people to believe that this happened in a concentration camp. This is what we were fighting against and I tell people and I tell kids when I speak to kids and they ask me do you have any sorrow for being in the concentration camp. And I said no because until I was shot down my job was strictly, well it wasn’t that simple, my job was to fly over Germany or Europe and drop bombs to try and remove factories that produce armament or whatever, so my job was to try to remove this nasty scheme, this nasty machine that overran Europe and was trying to overrun England. So I was on this side of it, now I’m caught up in it. Now I’m behind the wall, now I’m within the concentration camp. Now I am personally witnessing and experiencing the horrors that went on. This is what we were fighting against and nobody knew about it and I would never have known about it if I hadn’t been shot down, if I hadn’t of become involved with the Gestapo, if I hadn’t gotten involved with the concentration camp, so I have witnessed both sides of this. The one side where I was fighting an enemy who I knew was dangerous, deadly, very cruel but now I am with them. I am on the other side looking at how he was which nobody really knew anything about.