WWII Combat Veteran: Fritz Weinschenk - D-Day - Omaha Beach (Interview)
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- Interview with D-Day veteran Fritz Weinschenk for the documentary About Face: Jewish Refugee Soldiers in the Allied Forces. Filmed on June 6, 2004
Interviewers: Steve Karras
Rose Lizarraga
Cameras and Sound: David Hallinger
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Fritz Weinschenk (1923-2012) was born in Mainz, Germany and emigrated to the US with his family to escape Nazi persecution in the mid 30s. He served in the US Army's 293rd Joint Assault Signal Company and landed in the second wave on Omaha Beach, June 6th 1944. Two months later his outfit was sent to the Pacific and ultimately participated in the invasion of the Philippines. In 1946, he returned to Germany to serve in the American Military Government and was involved in the Nuremberg Trials. Fritz was admitted to the NY State Bar in 1953 and became heavily involved in restitution and indemnification cases for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), supplying thousands of Holocaust survivors with essentials and supporting Holocaust education research. #usarmedforces
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Powerful watching him stand there, reliving the parts of that day he remembers! A heartfelt THANK YOU to Fritz! Thank you.
What an emotional roller coaster for these heroes to go back to these peace sands. We owe them an immeasurable debt of gratitude
Thank you for your sacrifice your courage steadfast desire to fight the good fight
thank you for that Allan
From my family to Mr. Weinschenk, thank you Sir for the freedom you provided us. My family will forever be grateful and will not forget.
This is my grandpa. Thank you so much for posting this as I had not seen it before. Unfortunately, Fritz passed away in 2012 but not a day goes by where I don’t think about him and his influence on me and my father’s life. Thank you for the kind comments, I know he would have appreciated them .
@@haileyweinschenk1611 Carl or Walter? Thanks for watching !!
My Father in Law landed on Utah Beach. He would have been 100 years old in January of this year 2024. God Bless.
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God bless indeed
I'm watching this and crying like a baby.
Thanks for that! I'll post his long interview I did a few years before we walked the beach in 2004.
Me also I cannot begin to tell you what they all mean to me. 😊
HERÓIS!!!
Fascinating documentation, many thanks for posting it.
"I came, just over here, to Cherbourg in 1935. And I came back in 1944". Matter of fact, and "I was just a guy".
Unbelievable.
He was the coolest guy ever. Miss him. Thank you for watching and chiming in
"I was just a guy," he says to the camera crew. If I could have spoke to him after I would have told him, "true, you were 'just a guy' along with thousands just like you on that beach that day and together liberated a country giving it back to its people and changing the direction of a horrible war. So "no", I would have told him, "you were more than just a guy, you are heroes." May God bless them all. 🇺🇲🇬🇧🇨🇦
Amen. I hadn't watched this interview in its entirety since we filmed that day. I was really anxious when walking the beach and didn't have time to really enjoy it.
My great great uncle Russ was wounded at the battle of the bulge and about 30 or 40 years ago he was invited to one of these events but he replied “I had enough France when I was in the service.” He died bout 20 years and unfortunately I never got to meet him.
I believe it. My great uncle was in the Bulge as well. It must've just sucked! Thanks for sharing !
American, Canadian, British, French, simply the greatest generation of our time ,sadly never to be repeated. Take away the youths mobile phone away .and they would surrender. Its so tragic to witness the greatest generation to our day 80 years on to the this day to witness the new generation that is simply carbage , the youth of today simply do not interact by their voices but only via text so so sad .
100%
Not the greatest, they were ass kickers but the greatest generation wouldn’t have a group of people oppressing other races. America wasn’t free For Natives, Hispanics, Blacks or asians. They were all treated like shit and had their right taken from them.
Thank you so much 4 your service
FOR !!!
Thank you so much for sharing this!
Thank yuo forever !!!
anazing! my dad was in army artillery and he supported the landing somehow.
What a generation your dad belonged
"LOOK ARROUND YOU TODAY AND YOU SHALL SEE WHO WAS RIGHT"
Such an amazing determined and courageous life and Service of Serviceman Fritz Weinschenk!
May God Almighty continue to bless protect and use him! ❤🙏🇺🇸
Deepest respect
Amazing how sharp his mind is after all these years
Impossible not to be emotional watching him as he speaks about being kicked out of Germany for being Jewish, leaving Cherbourg in 1935, only to be back in France in 1944. Beautiful
sam- here in new zealand ahh met up with a family from Germany .- their surname is- Schwammburg.- They were jewish germen bankers somewhere in germany and Got too new zealand in 1930's.- When W.W.2 came along 4 off them joined New Zealand Army and one kiled in Libya and another in Italy
There are other modest people who have served in armed forces in other parts of the world sometimes for years who suffered all the discomforts and dangers yet they don't go on about it like these fellows - year after year
Thank god some of them go on about it, especially these fellows. D Day was the bigggest amphibius invasions in modern history (or one of them) and recording the stories of living participants, for posterity, is an invaluable resource. And you won't have to worry about hearing them much longer.
in last 7 years in Auckland City it been war zone concerning- scooters/ bikes/ skateboards/ other on footpaths and every other nook and trany the demons can show off on.
Riconoscenza infinita a questi valorosi soldati,che con il loro sacrificio hanno riportato la libertà in Europa.❤
Very interesting. Good vid
Understandable, you were a young man in one of the most horrific time of WWII.
Thank. You. Fritz. Dennis. Williams. U. S. ARMY. 1967. To. 1970. 11. B.
Thank you Mr Williams. What was your outfit in Vietnam?
For all the Army, Navy and Air-Force, men + ladies, who prepared for and fought in, even with sacrifice of their own lifes, the big Overlord operation (D-Day) our, all and best, respect! Let us say: Honours, be, for all, of them! For all, who, already in the eternity or still alived, gave admirable and nice examples (we must never forget) let us pray to be never forgotten by God and His blessings, for all of them! All were finaly, forever, like God soldiers and started the invitation for Europe all people build a life with no tyranny nazi, in peace and for the democracy (always giving hands like brothers)! D-Day, was, is and will be - forever - a remarkable and unforgetable date! Here, just a portuguese and christian family, in Portugal. Respectfully. L+E
Thank you for sharing that !
Hoy rusia esta peleando contra los nazis de ucrania y rusia los conocio muy bien o alguien tiene dudas
10:47 The Trumpites need to listen to his answer to the interviewer's question. Its so relevant today.
Thanks for chiming in. The line certainly makes me think about him
Sounds like he stayed hidden under the tank until all the killing was over! Probably why he survived!
Think he said it was too dangerous
Se llama supervivencia....tu que habrías hecho si hubieras estado Allí en ese momento, viendo cono todos tus compañeros son ametrallados por las mg 42 ???
Grandi uomini...