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Research Report :

Interview with Harry S. Ullmann at home of Arthur Ferguson, Macon, Georgia
on 13 December, 1967.

Harry Ullmann lives at 2557 Locksley Drive, Macon, Ga. 31208 Tel: 912 788 1280
He is Plant Superintendent for the Borden Milk Company, Macon.
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912-788-5733*]

Helmut Ullmann was born in Dresden and he joined the Hitler Youth.
He had just finished high school at 16 -when he was inducted into the Army
and was sent to Bjorken for training. This was the beginning of 1944 and
all that concerned him was staying alive. From Bjorken he went to France
and in September, 1944, as a corporal in the 10 [crossed out]25th[end crossed out] Panzer Division, he was
close to Arnhem.

The first he knew of the invasion was when he saw the planes coming.over.
He thought it was just another bombing mission; then to his horror he watched
the parachutists coming down. The 10th [crossed out]25th[end crossed out] Panzer Division were awaiting orders
to move but they were quickly given fresh orders to put up a line of defense
against the paratroopers. On the 19th September they were just outside
Groesbeck in a tank and within an hour 4 or 5 tanks in their Division were lost.
The tank commander in Ullmann's tank was only 24 years old and had a wooden
arm. 35 of them were taken prisoner and put behind a barn. The next afternoon
there was a German counterattack and the prisoners were released. By this
time they had no more tanks so they picked up regular weapons and joined the
infantry. He was subsequently taken prisoner again by the Canadians up near
Bremerhaven in April, 1945.

When the 82nd Airborne captured him near Groesbeck he was lined up against