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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
So you were living in the, before, before the air raid, you were living in the, uh, in the barracks--

{SPEAKER name="WERNER KARL DAHM"}
Yes, in the barracks.

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Which were hit during the raid, and I assume you were there, or--?

{SPEAKER name="WERNER KARL DAHM"}
The barracks were not really hit.

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Only they had built, had just finished, or were finishing some, er, some ditches, protective ditches. And one of them, closest to the road, was caught by a bomb, and a few people died there. The barracks were not damaged.

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
And you were there during the raid, I assume -- in the ditches.

{SPEAKER name="WERNER KARL DAHM"}
Ja, we were in one of these ditches with the concrete shell over, it was still, in er, in the wood casing, in the forms.

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Um, yeah, I know that the, that the foreign laborers' camp was hit very hard -- on that raid.

{SPEAKER name="WERNER KARL DAHM"}
Yes, that was much further south.

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Did you have any exposure to them? Did you see them at all? Or they were almost, they were completely separate from what you were doing-?

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{SPEAKER name="WERNER KARL DAHM"}
Yes, I walked through the woods here to Zinnowitz --

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Down the island --

{SPEAKER name="WERNER KARL DAHM"}
-- yes, but we had no contact with these people.

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
I'm kind of wondering what they were doing. I think they were based - [[cross]] - in construction--

{SPEAKER name="WERNER KARL DAHM"}
I think construction, construction, yes--

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
They were the construction labor force, for Organization Todt.

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{SPEAKER name="WERNER KARL DAHM"}
Ja. There was always construction going on, and, er the area is a bit swampy, sand, swampy.

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When you start digging, you have to pump water. Little pumps were running day and night at the construction site.

That was the constant noise of Peenemünde.

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Um. Have I forgotten anything important about the work that you've done during the war? Um, at Peenemünde?

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