- In the closing weeks of the war, Allied troops liberated German concentration camps
- They revealed the full horror of Nazi atrocities to a shocked world
- On April 29,1945, American soldiers entered Dachau
- One of the liberated prisoners was Nerin E. Gun, a Turkish Catholic journalist
- He was imprisoned by the Nazis for his reports about the Warsaw Ghetto and his prediction that the German armies would meet defeat in Russia
- Gun describes Dachau in his book The Day of the Americans (1966)
- From a detour through the marshaling yard, where convoys of deportees normally arrived, American soldiers discovered some 50 cattle-cars
- "At first sight they seemed to be filled with rags, discarded clothing. Then we caught sight of hands, stiff fingers, and faces"
- The train was full of corpses, piled one on the other, 2,310 to be exact
- They were Hungarian and Polish Jews who had come from Birkenau
- Around the camp were the infernal sights of the thousands of living skeletons on the other side of the placid poplars
Monday, April 25, 2011
The Liberation of Dachau, Gun
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