Marvin J. Miller, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Luke Kelly, June 11, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 242

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Marvin J. Miller .Jun • 11, _()()I One thing they told us when we stopped in a tati n 'Wa t b \\ar of the I Iitkr Y n1th. They were around. He said, "Never tum your back n th 111." , that' 'v\ hat \\C ah' a) s did. If we were in a group, we kept our backs togeth r so that w c uld , hat 'v\ a g ing n. In Frankfurt they put us in solitary confinement. It wa a nan w r m and it \\a painted white. I had a window. It had just a cot in there. I couldn't walk b cau f my il t. I'd have to hop. They gave me- l don't remember whether they ga e me a crutch r ju t a cane or what. But I was put in this room and was left there for se eral days. They brought s n1e soup. I'd get soup maybe once a day and some water or coffee, but didn't drink the cof£ e. After our interrogation we got back together. And they took us over to an area and took all our clothes. They gave us a shower and deloused us and everything. Then they gave us what they called a capture parcel. It was a little plastic suitcase. It contained a couple f shirts, some stockings, some handkerchiefs and underclothes. During the winter, we were issued an overcoat, but that was what we had at that particular time. There were two pairs of suntan pants, I think, in the capture parcel. The first meal that we had in this situation was mashed potatoes and salmon canned salmon. They had mixed it in with the mashed potatoes. It was quite good. Next they moved us out of camp. And the day that we left, as we left, the Red Cross handed out a carton of chewing gum, Double Mint chewing gum. And that's where I learned to conserve chewing gum. I learned to chew a half stick. Anyhow, they put us on a train and started sending us to France where we were supposed to be in a camp. When we got close to France the allies were making a drive so they 24