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German paratrooper captured at Arnhem: Gunther Wein

Extracts from an interview with German Fallschirmjager (paratrooper) Guenther (Gunther/Gunter) Wein who was captured near Arnhem. Covers the moment of his capture, treatment by the British, and his realisation that he had been fighting not for his country but for Hitler & the Nazis. Gunther Wein was born in Neumuenster, North Germany, in 1924. He joined the Luftwaffe and volunteered to become a paratrooper, training at Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt. Gunther saw action in the Netherlands in 1944 until he was captured near Arnhem by the British. Gunther, along with his friend Hans who was also captured, was sent to England to be interred at The Mount Camp, Chepstow, and Atherstone Camp, Warwickshire. Post-war, Gunter was transferred to a Long Marston Camp on Stratford-upon-Avon racecourse. In December 1948, he was formally repatriated to Germany and discharged from the former Wehrmacht. He returned to England to marry his English sweetheart Kathleen in 1950. Gunther was granted British Citizenship in 1956 and spent his career in engineering, working as a foreman in the UK subsidiary of a German machine tool manufacturing company until retirement in 1987. Gunther donated to the Archive a memoir and phtotgraphs of his childhood in the Hitler Youth and his active service, capture, and internment in British POW camps.