Autobiography…
- Here are the facts.
- Campbell was born in Schenectady, New York in February, a couple days after Valentine's Day, in 1912.
- Dude's dad was an engineer for GE who traveled a lot and looked at a picture book of WWI in his spare time.
- Campbell was not allowed to look at this book. He did, anyway—a lot. It was gruesome, full of bodies, pain, and blood.
- Campbell's mom played the cello and was kind of morbid.
- One time, Mom poured rubbing alcohol into a bowl, added salt, turned off the lights, and lit it on fire. Mother and son looked like corpses in the yellow light.
- Mom never really spoke to Campbell again after that.
- The fam all moved to Berlin, Germany, when Campbell's dad got transferred for work.
- Campbell grew up and married the chief of police's daughter, Helga.
- Dude's parents left Germany when the war started in 1939. Campbell stayed.
- Campbell became a propagandist.
- Campbell was caught by Lieutenant Bernard B. O'Hare of the American Third Army. This was the same team that discovered the death camp at Ohrdruf.
- The Third Army took Campbell to Ohrdruf to look at the carnage. There's a photo of Campbell looking up at the German guards hanged at the death camp.