CALL NUMBER: T3880:0012 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The misery of World War I : [tape 1] RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), [1982?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Background; enlistment; discovery of the meaning of war in France; to Russia, near Smolensk; hospital; to the Carpathians. [TRACK 2: blank?]

CALL NUMBER: T3880:0013 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The misery of World War I : [tape 2] RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), [1982?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discovering Russian guns; hit; withdrawing; new observation point; dead soldiers; wounded; six weeks in hospital in Warmbrunn, Germany; parents on a diet of turnips; France 1918; officers; food; political situation. Seeing apocalyptic riders; hospital; the Spanish flu; interpreter; battlefield. TRACK 2: Taken prisoner; retaliation camp; camp in Rouen; six feet tall, weighing 90 pounds; cleaning up the battlefields; a prisoner until 1921; hunger blockade continued for six months after the armistice. Emigration in 1928; details of Moreux in 1918; memories returning in dreams; poem.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Memories RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Schmidt the artist; Picasso; murals; decorative painting; art school in Hamburg; upper middle class childhood in Hamburg; art school in winter; apprentice's work in summer; parents and their lives later; blockade; inflation; tuberculosis; WWI; Western Front; eastern front to Smolensk; wounded; Stettin, now in Poland; in brass band on horseback; Western Front again; prisoner of war in France; imprisoned for eighteen months after the war; back in Hamburg; grim civil war; engagement; plans for emigration; trip to Canada; Montreal, first good year; finding work; French and English in Montreal; the Depression; long lines of unemployed; simple life on a Laurentian farm; neighbours. TRACK 2: Mrs. Schmidt; financial hardships for two years until new painting jobs came in; German friends; WWII; difference between English and French neighbours; freedom of speech; the fall of Dunkirk; interned; friendly policeman; prison in Bordeaux; joining the air force; other prisoners; prisoner of war uniform; housing and food; free time; applications for release; Mrs. Schmidt; after return; French internees; visit to Germany in 1948; country half starved and in rubble; adoption of war orphans; two years until any Germans could come over in 1950; children at home; move to Toronto; assimilation of girls; life in Toronto; inheritance from Germany; own business started; also school of art; new awareness of art in Canada; retirement at 73; move to Victoria in 1969; further restoration of paintings; swimming at the age of 76; new friends and happiness in Victoria.