"Liberation of Dachau" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 06 Apr 2020 5:24 a.m. PST |
On April 29, 1945, James W. Garner from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, stepped through a freshly blasted hole in the wall of Dachau Concentration Camp. Garner, a provost marshal with the 42nd Infantry Rainbow Division, emotionally recalled it as, "the most searing moment of my life … you can't imagine what humans can do to humans," he said. Dachau was liberated 75 years ago this month when the U.S. Seventh Army's 45th Infantry Division, the 42nd Infantry Rainbow Division, and the 20th Armored Division entered Dachau, rescuing 32,000 prisoners… link |
Extrabio1947  | 06 Apr 2020 10:07 a.m. PST |
I can't even begin to imagine. We joke about "what is once seen can never be unseen" but what these men of our Greatest Generation saw must have haunted their memories the rest of their lives. |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 06 Apr 2020 12:04 p.m. PST |
Sometimes, it haunts them more as they grow older. |
 Legion 4  | 06 Apr 2020 1:50 p.m. PST |
When the media interviews those Allied troops that liberated the Camps, years after the War. They still are amazed at such crimes against humanity, the horror, etc. |
 Herkybird | 06 Apr 2020 3:57 p.m. PST |
As a U.S. officer said 'Now we know what we are fighting for' |
| Memento Mori | 07 Apr 2020 10:06 a.m. PST |
Unfortunately a lot of people have forgotten, or worse, deny that places like Dachau existed. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke |
 deadhead | 07 Apr 2020 10:55 a.m. PST |
Do not forget 2100 tonight, ITV in UK, the documentary about Belsen liberation |
| Blutarski | 07 Apr 2020 4:37 p.m. PST |
It is interesting to note that Dachau is little more than ten miles from central Munich. B |
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