"I always got along best with the black GIs..."

"I sold newspapers at a US barracks. I always got along best with the black GIs, naturally some better than others. Also, if a black man was the cook, the probability was always somehow a little bit higher that I would get a little bit extra to eat. Somehow they were friendlier, and in a way...The weather was always too cold for them, and maybe they themselves were also somewhat low down in the hierarchy so they could have thought `Well, this Austrian is also one of the underdogs. I can talk to him.' So, my fondest memories are of them."

Helmut B., born in 1937, after 1950 was a paper boy for `Stars and Stripes' in the Siezenheim Barracks in the city of Salzburg (Boltzmann- Institut/Steinocher-Fonds Interview Archive, Salzburg)