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=== FRED FIELDS === | |||
=== Uehlfeld, Germany === | |||
XX Corps, Third Army | |||
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Fred Fields was born Siegfried Dingfelder and fled Germany with his family just after Kristallnacht. They arrived in the United States in 1940 and lived in Brooklyn, when Fields worked as a baker until getting drafted into the army. A graduate of Camp Ritchie, Maryland, he shipped out to the ETO as an interrogator and joined his unit 69th IPW in Metz. | Fred Fields was born Siegfried Dingfelder and fled Germany with his family just after Kristallnacht. They arrived in the United States in 1940 and lived in Brooklyn, when Fields worked as a baker until getting drafted into the army. A graduate of Camp Ritchie, Maryland, he shipped out to the ETO as an interrogator and joined his unit 69th IPW in Metz. | ||
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The above content is from "The Enemy I Knew: German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II" by Steven Karras. Steven has given us permission to reproduce the chapters in their entirety. All content is copyright Steven Karrass and Zenith Press. No reproduction without permission. | The above content is from "The Enemy I Knew: German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II" by Steven Karras. Steven has given us permission to reproduce the chapters in their entirety. All content is copyright Steven Karrass and Zenith Press. No reproduction without permission. | ||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[The Stories/The Enemy I Knew|The Enemy I Knew]] | |||
* [[The Stories]] | * [[The Stories]] | ||
* [[Camp Ritchie]] | * [[Camp Ritchie]] | ||