ROBERT KOTLOWITZ: I was sent to the Alsatian countryside because I had been what was called an ASTP infantryman. When he spoke with Terry Gross, he told her that after basic training, he was sent with the 26th Division to the French countryside. After the war, Kotlowitz was a managing editor of Harper's Magazine and former director of programming and broadcasting for the New York public TV station WNET. We'll hear him describe that experience in a few minutes. In one battle, nearly his entire platoon was wiped out.
He was Jewish and was sent to France to fight the Germans. Of the 16 million veterans of that war, a little more than 167,000 are still alive.įirst, we listen to our 1999 interview with Robert Kotlowitz, author of the memoir "Before Their Time." He was a college student when he was drafted into the infantry in 1943.
Today is Veterans Day, and we mark it by listening back to interviews with two men who fought in World War II.
I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University, in for Terry Gross.
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