Interview with Martyna Turnau-Williams, a supervisor at the Regensburg Messerschmitt factory WW2

Interview with Martyna Turnau-Williams, a supervisor at the Regensburg Messerschmitt factory. Columbus, Ohio, USA, 1985.

Martyna:
” In our area there was a land baron who was very wealthy; many called him derisively the Fat Cat Jew. He and his kin wanted to buy up all the farms to make a collective, like in the Soviet Union, my father and others opposed this. He then started trouble; in 1934 I remember the supply of feed was cut, raising prices. Local governments who were now not as friendly to Germans enacted rules making supplies going to German farms more expensive and paying less for our products. This on top of added taxes and threats from outside mobs, made my father decide to move us in 1936.”

“When the war started many Jews who were suspected of not being loyal were arrested and sent to camps. I recently learned America did this as well to Germans, Italians, and Japanese. It is the same thing in my book, but we Germans are condemned for our actions while the other nations are excused. Our crime was that so many died in the camps but I personally believe it was due to the situation Germany was put in by 1945, many Germans were dying as well.”

For educational purposes.