Dachau

[steveno]

About the only reason I go to gun shows anymore is to see what I can find in old books to read. This weekend at the Hastings gun show was a book titled “Dachau 29 April 1945”. There isn’t an author as such but is a recollection of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp by the Rainbow Division (42 nd Infantry). The book is the recollections of the liberators as well as the liberated. It is obvious that that many were deeply affected by what they came across in the liberation of this hell hole. If you find a copy of this book it is a real good read.

I visited Dachau in 1975 and I can tell you for a fact it is NOT a pleasant place to recover from a hangover from Oktoberfest. I can’t even imagine what the liberators really felt and probably still feeling.

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[armorer951]

My dad was there at the end of April and beginning of May 1945. Army, 292nd Field Artillery. He was not one of the liberators, but witnessed and photographed the conditions there. A life changing experience, and a horrible place for sure.

 

[jeffsmith]

My wife's Godparents were imprisoned there

 

[Old cop]

Some of our family escaped in time, some did not and died in the camps.

 

[Rudi]

I was there in '79, 35 years after liberation. The crematorium still reeked of burned flesh. We got drunk after.