| Title: |
Rafael D. Hirtz
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| Local code: |
AFC/2001/001/94
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
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| Collection: |
Veterans History Project
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| Description: |
With his privileged upbringing - he was born to a wealthy French family, educated by private tutors, and grew up as a teenager around 1930s Hollywood-- Rafael Hirtz might have found a way to coast through World War II. Instead, he volunteered for the fledgling Office of Strategic Services, even after he was told that field operatives had only a fifty percent chance of survival. Hirtz worked on three intelligence missions abroad, using his ability to speak fluent French in service to his adopted country.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Video: |
[Video available]
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| Speaker: |
Hirtz, Rafael, 1921-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1921
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Buenos Aires province, Argentina; Argentina; South America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Intelligence officer; Military personnel
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Interviewer: |
Brown, Clinton C.
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Army; U.S. Office of Strategic Services, 1942-1945
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| Historical events discussed: |
World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Africa; Asia; China; England; Europe; France; North Africa; North America; United Kingdom; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Africa; Asia; China; England; Europe; France; Intelligence officers; Intelligence service--United States; North Africa; North America; Oral history; U.S. Army; U.S. Office of Strategic Services, 1942-1945; United Kingdom; United States; United States--Armed Forces; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025850-27778
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