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Will Gehlen

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Will Gehlen, a member of the Hitler Youth, relates the tale of Adolf Hitler visiting his school and explains why he was so admired by the German people. (6:30)

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Will Gehlen, a Hitler Youth member on a flak gun crew, describes the different types of Allied planes shot down by the flak and how the survivors were sometimes mistreated by the Hitler Youth, but not by the soldiers. (3:22)

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Will Gehlen remembers how he left the French Foreign Legion after the war in Indochina and why he still carries a grudge against the memory of Charles de Gaulle. (8:24)

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Will Gehlen describes life in the Rhineland during the rise of the Third Reich and what it was like on the German home front and the attitude and feelings of the German civilians during the war and after the defeat. (German Home Front, Part 2/2) (7:48)

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Pressed into service on a flak gun crew, Will Gehlen, a boy at the time, describes the technology used to battle Allied planes and the routine of life on the crew. (The Flak Guns, Part 2/2) (8:41)

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Will Gehlen gives background on the French Foreign Legion and the difficult colonial Indochina war. Despite French disinterest, patriotic Viet Minh and difficult jungle warfare conditions, he survived because they were "bad shots." (12:25)

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Will Gehlen, a Hitler Youth member, relates the tale of the capture of his older brother, who was a very enthusiastic Nazi. (4:11)

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Will Gehlen, a German member of the French Foreign Legion, relates the tale of his imprisonment by the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu. (8:26)

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Will Gehlen describes life in the Rhineland during the rise of the Third Reich and what it was like on the German home front and the attitude and feelings of the German civilians during the war and after the defeat. (German Home Front, Part 1/2) (9:38)

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Will Gehlen tells how and why he joined the French Foreign Legion after the end of World War II and why the Legion was so attractive to Germans in the wreckage of their homeland. (10:51)