Dachau Liberated

On April 29, 1945, elements of the U.S. Seventh ArmyÕs 42nd and 45th divisions reached Dachau, a small town on the outskirts of Munich, Germany. There they discovered over 30,000 men and women imprisoned in conditions so inhumane that over 200 of them died each day from starvation and disease. One [...]
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On April 29, 1945, elements of the U.S. Seventh ArmyÕs 42nd and 45th divisions reached Dachau, a small town on the outskirts of Munich, Germany. There they discovered over 30,000 men and women imprisoned in conditions so inhumane that over 200 of them died each day from starvation and disease. One soldier, coming upon a room filled with corpses ready to be burned, commented that it looked "like a maniac's woodpile." What they saw so shocked those battle-hardened soldiers that in less that a month they had published an official report describing the concentration camp, detailing how it was run, giving the personal experiences of its inmates, and telling how it was liberated. Almost impossible to find outside a few research libraries, that report is now a book with all the original text and photos, plus a detailed index, valuable additional commentary, and sketches made by a combat artist who visited the camp the day after its liberation. This book provides an invaluable early record of Nazism's unspeakable crimes.