"A bunch of Santa Clauses in Jeeps..."

"Sure, we were afraid. We had a terrible fear of the Americans. The Nazis had always told us what terrible people they were, that the blacks were cannibals. And then a bunch of Santa Clauses in Jeeps showed up, with chocolate and chewing gum for all the kids."

Marianne E., born in 1932, she was 13 years old by the end of the war and encountered the first GIs in Bischofshofen, Salzburg. (Boltzmann-Institut/Steinocher-Fonds Interview Archive, Salzburg)