At Camp Ritchie, One German POW Told a German-Born American Why Hitler Helped His Career

A German prisoner sat beside German-born U.S. Army Sergeant Dieter Kober at Camp Ritchie and spoke more openly than the other POWs Kober remembered. Lieutenant Colonel Fellner explained how Hitler’s expansion of the army had opened officer school and rapid advancement to him. Their encounter happened over captured documents, during work Kober called “advanced clerical work.” 0:00 The admission in the small room 0:25 Dieter Kober’s road from Germany to the U.S. Army 1:25 Captured documents reach Camp Ritchie 2:25 Lieutenant Colonel Fellner joins Kober 3:35 Why Fellner agreed to travel to America 4:45 What the two men actually did 5:50 Prisoners, collaborators, and guarded movement 7:25 Fellner explains his career under Hitler 8:55 The Hill Project closes Sources: https://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/f... https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/ser... https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1... https://www.dvidshub.net/news/575126/... https://www.dvidshub.net/image/994873... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...