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The feeling of injustice can persist with the pores and skin for a very long time. That of Albert Corrieri has the wrinkles of his 103 years. He has had a life for the reason that struggle. He was married then widower, father twice and as many instances grandfather, plumber, boxing timer and even wearer of the Olympic flame. Eighty years later, this former requirement of the obligatory labor service (Sto) nonetheless has a really full of life reminiscence of the eighteen months he spent in a Ludwigshafen manufacturing unit, close to Mannheim, within the service of Nazi Germany. “The suffering we had there, we have not forgotten ithe says. But it looks like we are the only ones remember. »»

Albert Corriei's prisoner booklet during his sto period, photographed at his home in Marseille, June 21, 2024.
Albert Corrieri, former Sto, at home in Marseille, June 21, 2024, 102 years at the time.

The Marseillais saw the soldiers who landed in the La Daurade restaurant, where he worked on the Old Port, in March 1943, saw him asking for his papers. A month earlier, on February 16, the collaborationist government of Vichy had established the STO under pressure from the GAULIER (district chief) Fritz Sauckel, nicknamed the “European slave. Like most individuals born between 1920 and 1922, Albert Corrieri was requisitioned to inflate the ranks of German corporations, stripped by departures on the Eastern Front. Direction The Ig Farben chemical manufacturing unit, in Ludwigshafen, Camp 6, barracks 1,023.

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