[Interview of Jessie Melis on her service as a teacher in occupied Germany from August 1950 to July 1953].

In an oral history interview, Jessie Melis talks about her service as a teacher in occupied Germany from August 1950 to July 1953. She recalls the devastation in German cities, socializing with German citizens, German customs, her living quarters in Munich, taking meals in the officer's mess, her ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project Vincent Voice Library (digitizer,, current owner.)
Other Authors:	Melis, Jessie, 1915-2012 (Interviewee) Hornbacher, Elsie, 1918- (Interviewer)
Language:	English
Subjects:	Melis, Jessie, > 1915-2012 > Interviews. Melis, Jessie, > 1915-2012 > Travel > Palestine. Teachers, Foreign > Germany > Interviews. World War, 1939-1945 > Destruction and pillage > Germany. Germany > Social conditions > 1945-1955. Germany > Economic conditions > 1945-1990. Ex-Nazis. Teaching > Germany. Teaching > United States. Destruction and pillage. Economic history. Social conditions. Teachers, Foreign. Teaching. Travel. Germany. Middle East > Palestine. United States. 1939-1990 Oral histories. Interviews.
Genre:	Interviews. Oral histories.
Online Access:	Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 audio file (53 min., 22 sec.))
Format:	Electronic Audio Software

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