This is neither mundane nor pointless, but it is something I’d like to share with all you WW2 buffs out there.
I have studied Holocaust literature for decades, but somehow was never aware of David Boder’s project until recently: http://voices.iit.edu/
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In 1946, Dr. David P. Boder, a psychology professor from Chicago’s Illinois Institute of Technology, traveled to Europe to record the stories of Holocaust survivors in their own words.
Dr. David P. Boder with Armour wire recorder, Europe, 1946 Over a period of three months, he visited refugee camps in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany, carrying a wire recorder and 200 spools of steel wire, upon which he was able to record over 90 hours of first-hand testimony. These recordings represent the earliest known oral histories of the Holocaust, which are available through this online archive.
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The interviews with the survivors of this horror are fascinating, chilling, devastating, painful, and historic. Read it and weep.