The RUTHLESS Executions Of The Guards Of Dachau Shot By The Americans Liberators

The first concentration camp to open inside of Hitler's Germany was Dachau, and it was in operation for over 12 years until at the end of the Second World War it was liberated by the Americans. It was a camp full of torture and execution, and when the Americans liberated the camp there were many different SS guards who were found at the camp. These were men and women who had been brutal and barbaric to the inmates of Dachau, but the American soldiers would carry out a number of executions of the former guards.
In a clearing, the SS guards were gathered and then a machine gun was fired towards them and many were executed. In other areas of the camp, Americans turned a blind eye to the violent reprisals of the prisoners who beat a number of former guards to death. But the executions were investigated, but nothing came of this.
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[@jamesferris4573]

My father was attached to the 42nd Infantry and helped liberate Dachau. The carnage and brutality that he witnessed in the boxcars and the camp itself troubled him until the day he died. He told me about the things that he saw firsthand during the liberation of Dachau and the events after with some of the inmates and guards and GI's and guards. He only mentioned Dachau one time and never talked about anything else he saw or did in the war. I realize now that he needed to unburden his soul to someone so he could try and move past it, but I doubt he ever did. The same evil is on the rise again in the world, while some of the generation who fought to defeat fascism still live. This world has too quickly forgotten the terrible lessons taught by catering to authoritarian leaders and those who seek power at any cost.

[@deb5932]

Could your father liberate thousands of innocent people protesting against British oppression were put to heinous death, weren't those acts of cruelty by the criminal British upon innocent Indians? Hijli concentration camp was one such example.

[@brucestener8476]

Well said James Ferris...😢

[@RicondaRacing]

This is absolutely true. The Democratic Party is trying to imprison political opponents and appoint insiders into key positions to create a totalitarian state. They're also trying to disarm the American public, a common tactic of any fascist state before martial law.

[@deb5932]

British started three concentration camps located at Bauxar Fort in the Alipurduar district of West Bengal, India, Berhampur in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, India, and Hijli concentration camp in West Midnapore district of West Bengal, India. Another notorious prison camp was set up by the British in Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India to torture freedom fighters in a way that was worse than Dachau concentration camp by Natsi Germany. How many British were prosecuted for these war crimes? None. This is lawlessness in international arena.

[@jstenberg3192]

Censorship, authoritarian mandates, mainstream media government collusion, FBI cover ups, politically motivated persecutions, antifa Browns brownshirts tolerated. Yep..u r correct

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

Well, I must admit that if I were an American solder there as a Liberator, I would have "turned a blind eye" as well while the prisoners were attacking the German guards.

[@norbertbudzinski6744]

Ich hätte die Augen der Täter persönlich zugedrückt !

[@zebradun7407]

You can't aim with a blind eye.

[@mikerobb7443]

I would never turn a blind eye in such a situation. It would be me who started the killings

[@magdump4456]

​@@mikerobb7443killing them would make you no better than they were at their most powerful moments which was when they were winning the war and stood guard over the prisoners. Now that the tables had turned, killing them instead of imprisoning them for life made whoever took part in shooting the guards the same as the guards themselves. It gave those despicable guards an easy way out in my opinion. They should have been in prison for life which would be a true punishment. Don't get me wrong I'm for the USA in the allies, it's just in this moment, the ones doing the shooting sunk down to the low level of the guards themselves when they done this

[@peterjones7895]

​@@magdump4456In the book of revelation when jesus returns his robe is covered in blood. It says that he kills every single person that opposes him on the entire planet. There's no mention of prison anywhere. I'm curious if you were aware of this and how you would factor in. your morality

[@fredcrawford4763]

Ruthless executions? Our soldiers did a service to all those poor souls who were subjected to horrors most people cannot comprehend. God bless them all.

[@steveperreira5850]

I agree. I would go further. Every single German that voluntarily served the Nazi regime should have been executed. And all those who supported them. There needs to be a lesson for The executioners of mass genocide.

[@emomuzz5883]

Want mercy? Better show some first. Well done.

[@leofranke814]

murder=murder

[@mickeypip1524]

@@leofranke814 It’s never murder , remember , if the Yanks are dishing it out.... They have such a grasp on goodness and morality...makes you weep! They are God’s Crusaders and the Earth’s Policemen.

[@OMEGATECH]

Amen! 🙏

[@markjohnson4053]

My dad's neighbor was among the Americans that liberated Dachau. He said you could smell it from miles away. Our young have no idea how bad things were.

[@gregcugola779]

Jesus man, I pray for you and your courageous soldier neighbour. God bless you both.

[@nofriendofmine9880]

This should be a mandatory class in high school.

[@jeffsmith2022]

Those of us who were not born or were not there have no idea how rotten, awful things were then...

[@miltonwaltercompanyllc9605]

My now ex grandfather in law was among those who liberated a concentration camp. He said to this day he remembers the smell. My wife said he never ever talked about his experience so I was surprised he decided to share with me. I watched a bull of a soldier reduced to tears in minutes as he told his story. I can never imagine the horror he saw, but I always remember the close of his story …..”I’m no longer scared of going to Hell. I’ve already been there”

[@miltonwaltercompanyllc9605]

I admire the US generals who forced the citizens of the nearby towns to tour the camps

[@Superbowfin60]

My father was there he was in the 7th army 14th armored 47th tank battalion he was a tank commander. He liberated a Dachau subcamp. It was full of Russian and Polish prisoners, near by they liberated a camp with Jewish ✡️ prisoners and a Jewish woman's camp . People should always remember this and remember it can happen today and people should always be aware and never forget I'm actually worried our world is headed this way again.

[@richardross7219]

Last winter, the governor of NY wanted to establish concentration camps(her words) for people that didn't get the poke.

[@virtualdude64]

I agree. Today, many young people have forgotten what a totalitarian government is capable of and I see a lot of people wishing that their political rivals and foes be thrown into prison on trumped up charges.

[@johnfroelich8554]

It IS going to happen again. Only worse

[@charles1606]

It is being carried on today, bit they cover it up, and those in control own the mainstream media that lie 100% of the time. Which form of totalitarianism do you worship?

[@monmixer]

It sue looks like it. They are destroying a persons right and ability to feed himself and family from the land. Once that is done the entire population is dependent on government. The world is polluted by corporations and humans but the nasty chemicals didn't come from humans that knew better. They were just trying to make a living. Not a ot of water in the USA that does not have limits on fish meals from mercury, pcb and other nasty cancer causing chemicals. Frozen food is trash and no good for your gut. The power struggle is on for control of the world.

[@paulw176]

I'm not gonna comment on the 'morality' of killing these guys but I will say that given the post-war lack of interest in bringing thousands of these lower level thugs to justice - turning a blind eye to this incident may have been the closest thing to justice these inmates ever received.

[@Dontwlookatthis]

Considering that the freed inmates were doing the same thing I think that if the G.I.s had been tried there would have been an outcry from the freed inmates so loud that the western world would have been deafened. I think it is wrong to call this event a war crime. All of those GIs, every last one, should have been home being young men in a regular America but were forced into being where they were, on Hitler. They were emotionally wrecked by what they found that was unthinkable. Sparks was filmed running to that young machine gunner, jumping into the air and kicking him in the head so hard that his helmet is seen flying through the air, and the gunner was knocked senseless. What most of us see are select stills taking from the film, or selectively edited so that Sparks is not seen jumping and kicking. I saw the complete film in the summer of 1983. It was horrible to see, as was a camp guard who was confronted by inmates right in front of a movie camera, which proceeded into beating the guard to death and then beating him until he was unrecognizable and his brain fell out of his skull. We who see this out of context of the entire area going insane, of GIs finding a multi car freight train filled with just killed with newly dead inmates have no business judging this event.

[@logancody8841]

Excellent point, my friend!

[@Dontwlookatthis]

One more point, I just read a book written by then Sgt, later Lt. George Wilson who came ashore a few weeks after D-Day, when there were other men who had already become battle wise. He was with his men when they encountered two new men who had two SS prisoners, waling along the road. A tank drove up and stopped, the commander asked them why the the SS soldiers weren't "sleeping" a term for dead. One of the Americans said he didn't understand why they would kill two prisoners. The commander said that while they appeared compliant now, the Germans would start throwing mortar shells again, and not specifically aiming at him, all four would dive for cover, but the SS who were battle wise, would take the opportunity to jump the Americans and kill the. The young American said he still wouldn't shoot prisoners and the tanker said to leave the prisoners and that they would see to it that they got to where they were going. The young GIs plus Wilson and his men continued toward the front and suddenly heard gunfire coming from the tank. He assumed the commander killed the prisoners. The term Sleep is used in the movie Fury when an SS pow is taken through the camp and Wardaddy asks whey the SS isn't sleeping and the others said he was being brought in for questioning.

[@Mr.Ekshin]

@@Dontwlookatthis - Yup... the SS as a whole were well known to take no prisoners. They would brutally execute both allied prisoners and civilians alike. So the allies treated them much the same way.

[@danmorris8594]

100% way too many were never held accountable for their crimes.

[@jeffreese1828]

What the Germans did at Dachau was ruthless . What the Americans did at Dachau was JUSTICE . Get a clue , sonny .

[@Mr.Ekshin]

Most American soldiers knew to kill SS soldiers on sight. The SS were known to take no prisoners as part of their official policy. And there were many atrocities where the SS would slaughter civilians and allied prisoners in rather brutal fashion. So the Americans responded in kind, immediately killing SS rather than taking them as prisoners.

[@joelaugustine3418]

You hit the perverbial nail on the head. Well said thank you

[@Mr.Ekshin]

@@carlosaalicea - Speak for yourself kid.

[@Mr.Ekshin]

@@carlosaalicea - You're full of crap... not to mention stolen valor.

[@jeffreese1828]

@@carlosaalicea Hi . No , I was not in the Army , just the Army brats corps. My father , Ret. Major , was career man , two tours Vietnam (not too long after I was born) , '68 and '70 , was a Huey pilot and received multiple Decorations (and several close calls !). 22 years an IP after he put in his 20 . Both my grandfathers were in WWII , one in Europe and one in the Pacific , but "just" for the war , not career men , and luckily both came home . So , thank you for YOUR service . I'm sorry , but I think I missed your point ? I don't see what serving or not , has to do with my comment/opinion . Being an observant , empathetic and intelligent human being , a life long worker , learner , and Citizen for nearly 60 years on this Earth provides all the justification needed for my comment , which I stand by . I owe YOU no personal justification , but , since you have left two replies , I advance you this courtesy : So , if you have a POINT , or something you'd like TO ADD , or DISAGREE with , then please , do so . Now that you know my service record , you can point out how I was mistaken about the Nazis getting what they deserved .

[@invoxicated]

Back in 1963 my 6th grade music teacher brought her husband to our class. He was a Polish Jew and a survivor of the Holocaust. He showed us the tattoo the Nazis had put on his arm and had some pictures. He told us of the horrors he endured. I was numb for weeks after hearing his stories. It boggles the mind how could humans be so cruel to others.

[@Hzmtfc]

I had a high school history teacher who was a kid that survived one of the camps and he showed us his tattoo and what he could remember of being in the camp. It was so chilling to hear a first hand account

[@3315nostrand]

Inhumanity still exists , to this day....

[@milt6208]

When I was 6 I'll never forget it over at the White's house. The gentleman was a small Eastern European man and very friendly. One of the best learning moments in my life was when he showed us his tatto on his arm. Sad too.

[@rickraber1249]

And how some other humans could be so stupid as to insist it never happened.

[@ctsfiddler]

I went to the schools in Jersey City and had the same experience you had of a concentration camp survivor visiting the school and it's still in my mind.

[@im4run]

Can't see how anyone can come upon that horror and not have some kind of reaction towards the perpetrators.

[@Mr.Ekshin]

The SS took no prisoners, and committed atrocities wherever they went. So the allies responded in kind... killing them on sight. They knew the kind of treatment they would receive if the SS were to take them prisoner, so they made sure these 'people' were taken out at the first opportunity.

[@kirkstickney7394]

We are supposed to have a problem with the SS guards being shot?!?!? Sorry, not gonna happen…

[@planB-john]

If the Nazis were willing to die for Hitler I bet the allies where more determined to help them in their endeavour.

[@seanwebb605]

Where?

[@planB-john]

@@seanwebb605 Where? What do you mean? All over Europe, it seems you don’t know half of the story ,even in my father’s city back then a town you might say ,southern Spain (Algeciras), it was full of German S.S ,nazis , Spies ,only because on the other side of the bay is Gibraltar,(British). You knew they were there but you couldn’t tell. Just like “ GERMS”. Gathering intel.

[@seanwebb605]

@@planB-john Where more determined?

[@planB-john]

@@seanwebb605 ⁠ Buddy I haven’t got time for your silly little games! It seems you’re all bone from the neck up,so put it to rest.

[@seanwebb605]

@@planB-john There are no silly games. Where more determined?

[@aklemmer8936]

Dying by gun shots was too easy for those guards

[@marttoom5903]

Not a single Dachau prison guard was found in the camp. Those shot by americans there were soldiers of a random German unit, who unfortunately to them happened to surrender themselves at Dachau, having marched a long distance from east to west ower night.

[@stevegarcia3731]

@@marttoom5903 Well, kind of true.there was an adjacent military prison, for criminals. 3 days earlier, the commandant over both grabbed a bunch of them, and then he and the real guards left. He thought the Americans were going to treat them okay. But the dead bodies freaked the GIs out. They made a mistake, but a totally understandable one.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

Not a single tear for those German perpetrators. My tears are for the inmates- the true victims.

[@bitsnbobs1969]

same here them ss guards i bet they killed many

[@boatburnerice7925]

Do you know why the US dropped a nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and not on german? Because Germans were white. Thats why blacks were never aloud lead a bragade. The US has also done alot of killing. Who wins the war..can write the history books.

[@MichaelDiSalvoSATandACTTutor]

An eye for an eye is about to destroy this world of ours.

[@michaelsteal9128]

How sad you do not have the ability to see each person as an individual

[@shekelberggoldstein1387]

Tears for the Marxist? Not me.

[@davidsigalow7349]

As my late father, a veteran, would have said, "F 'em."

[@brettbanta2100]

I like the way he thinks. My kind of guy !

[@martymar1964]

Any American neo Nazis should take heed as to what could be their fate if they continue down their path.

[@painmt651]

Correctamundo!

[@jackkruese4258]

I’d have shot them too.

[@Deflection]

👏 👍🏻 🫡

[@miketrusky476]

Dad spoke Polish, he was a very intelligent man who played for the Cleveland Indians Baseball team. He was ordered to interview concentration camp victims, his words , "we took the guards to a large room and walked out, they walked in after them and when they came out there was nothing left, not even a bone" (of the guards) . He had many photos taken by the Germans. MOM said "He was never the same man when he came home". As a viewer of his photos, there were no crimes COMITTED by anyone who took revenge on the guards.

[@milt6208]

I'm sure God wanted to see them as quickly as possible.

[@us-Bahn]

Any liberator who went into the camps, the huge volume of testimony tells us, came out a very different person. Like walking into the center of Hell.

[@midwestmike613]

​@@garyb6219call it karma if you rather but you will reap what you sow eventually maybe sooner maybe later either way it's for a reason

[@rickraber1249]

Human beings are born with free will. A bunch of nations went to war against Hitler and the Japanese and won. Good people hid the Jews and helped them escape. The US helped rebuild both Europe and Japan - and took in many refugees. If you're going to insult God for the evil He did not do, at least give Him credit for the good His people did - and still do. @@garyb6219

[@tiasara5967]

@@milt6208that is very thoughtful of you. Yes, god was probably eager to make their acquaintance.

[@robinblackmoor8732]

My father was in Italy. When the Germans rescued Mussolini and put him back in power, he called for a draft. My father did not respond. He joined a group fighting the Nazi. They never took SS as prisoners, and almost never took regular army prisoners either. They had witnessed what the Nazi had done. It was not war fighting, so they were not treated as soldiers by the group my father was in. He never lost sleep over it, and I am proud of it.

[@jroar123]

My Grandfather was an artillery Sargent from Texas who spent his time in Italy. He never killed Italians and hardly ever spared a German.

[@DerSchleier]

Your father was a ZOG murderer. Be ashamed.

[@DerSchleier]

@@jroar123 You should be ashamed. Go to Germany and visit the graves of every innocent German your ignorant father murdered.

[@conveyor2]

@@jroar123 He was well programmed.

[@xaviervolkart7220]

Nothing to b proud of killing prisoners. Of an overwhelmingly under supplied under maned weekend force

[@richardross7219]

There was a story on the History Channel about 30 years ago. The captured guards of a death camp were lined up awaiting for the MPs to take them away. The senior nazis officer started admonishing the Americans that the nazis should be thanked for what they had done. The Jewish GI covering them with an MG42, mowed them all down. In war time, soldiers have to fight fire with fire.

[@user-vv2pf1sy4m]

Karma is a BITCH,, he should have been awarded the highest honor a GI can get

[@user-zi2wz8ee6o]

My father was involved in the liberation of several camps including bergen Belden and 40 yrs later it became his ptsd

[@richardross7219]

@@user-zi2wz8ee6oMost combat vets have nightmares for the rest of their lives after they come home. Your Dad and Mom probably covered it up.

[@anthonyscott5134]

“Ruthless execution” should NEVER be used when talking about the justice merged out to the extermination camp guards! Anyone referring to the justice meted out to these guards as a war crime should be placed into a camp and treated exactly as these guards treated their prisoners!

[@ryansutter4291]

Ruth wasn't around..

[@davidpowell6098]

No offence, but most of the guards at the camp were new conscripts brought in when the others escaped their fate, I have seen the film these stills were taken from, they showed no mercy, the shooting stopped when the officer un holstered his pistol and threatened to shoot the machine gunner doing the most of the killing. Horrible times to witness.

[@cdc3]

@davidpowell6098 They may have been new conscripts, but they also participated in destroying the helpless lives there.

[@brianford1346]

@@davidpowell6098 Well maybe they should have escaped. Fuck em all.

[@joelaugustine3418]

Very well said can't be said any better thank you?

[@lukearcher886]

Every guard of every camp, should have been handed over to the prisoners!

[@cissiepierce664]

My thought exactly, justice in it’s most basic form.

[@yarsivad000.5]

Let the prisoners recover for a couple months then let the guards watch as one by one the prisoners tear them to pieces.

[@Sunmoon-gj9gy]

My father was in the 104th Infantry division, the Timberwolves, and they liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp .He very rarely spoke of it in his 95 years but when he did , tears came to his eyes describing naked dead people stacked like cord wood and the smell that still haunted him , he said they made the townspeople dig the graves , while they protested they knew nothing. So your video suggesting the American soldiers did anything wrong sickens me 😢

[@Churchill867]

God bless your father🙏.

[@BiggerFatterBlog]

My father was with the 63rd Blood & Fire. They liberated some of the sub camps. He never talked about it. He talked about his time in North Africa, Italy and France. He talked a little bit about the occupation of Germany, and how every German denied being a Nazi. he did have a lot of war trophies from Germany, and when I asked him how he got them, he said, “I got them from a dead German when he wasn’t looking”. He never showed any overt signs of PTSD but I know he would be melancholy at times. I think he was glad he did what he did. He and his brothers in arms. Hope to cleanse the German gene pool of depravity.

[@michaelwhisman]

THe Americans were no better than the Nazis. They were murderers.

[@stanleybroniszewsky8538]

The people claiming they knew nothing actually knew everything. There were far more civilians than Nazi guards. They had every opportunity to stop them but never did. They were just as guilty as the ones running the camp.

[@T.efpunkt]

@@stanleybroniszewsky8538 Guy from germany here. My grandmother was one of those civillians rounded up and forced to burry the dead after the liberation, allthough she never specified which camp (probably one in occupied poland were she lived). When i learned about the nazis in school, i started asking questions about how much she knew and she told me that everybody knew and that she even went there with friends on weekends to look at the prisoners and flirt with the guards.

[@barryrussell4106]

I knew Beryl Wolfson he was in the US Army and liberated the camp. When he was 90 years old he could not talk about it without sobbing. You can study it see the pictures but it is lost in translation until you look into the eyes of someone who witnessed it first hand. He was a tough guy. Served in Italy, France, battle of the bulge had a huge Nazi flag full of bullet holes he took down in Germany. He saw what we would hate to imagine. We can not judge reprisals through our eyes their eyes are the only ones to judge as they filled the boots that were on the ground. You can look up his story on KZbin in their own words AETN

[@gjohnson8774]

Nothing anyone could possibly do to an SS guard at this camp could ever be considered a crime. Not ever.

[@TP-om8of]

Most of us have never had the opportunity to be à concentration camp guard. I think it might be surprising how easy any of could adapt to the role, if the circumstances were there.

[@TheyCallMeRabbit98]

@@TP-om8of we as functioning humans are able to do such a great harm and evil to one another, as well as we are able to do such great and wonderful things to one another. The balance is in your palm every day you wake up. It’s all about how you do, throughout the day.

[@arthurmee]

​​@@TP-om8ofunfortunately you are so right. If anyone doubts it start with Stanley Milgram's experiments on obedience and authority . . . disturbing to say the least.

[@scottdaniels3033]

I can't think of one crime that did happen to some of the SS, they were allowed to leave as free men. To me that is an unforgivable crime.

[@artflorez1568]

I agree with you.

[@phil4208]

No war crime committed by the American soldiers to the nazi guards, justice was served, quickly

[@alancrisp1582]

🤔😷 I just wonder, did you actually read your own comment before posting it ?...

[@philliphall5198]

My Dad stayed worried that our government would turn on them and change them with murder because they did the right thing at that Time

[@marks-0-0]

Put it down to confusion in the moment, the fog of war and inmates taking revenge, nothing to see hear lessons have been learnt etc Csse closed.

[@danchristopher7957]

Psychopathy much???

[@Don-pu4th]

My uncle was a medic with the troops that liberated Dachau. He told me that they let the prisoners kill a female guard with their bare hands. He told me that she hung prisoners in a gunny sack and had them shot.

[@Sunmoon-gj9gy]

My father with the 104th had the same story when they liberated Buchenwald

[@johnjohnson8732]

This was not ruthless. This was justice, handed down to those that deserved much worse.

[@chissstardestroyer]

Those uniformed unlawful combatants didn't even get *close* to the penalties they deserved, yet anyone at all who's in official uniform is forever not merely *subhuman* but *antihuman* and an unlawful combatant; so they must be turned over to peoples who specialize in burning occultist antihuman scum like anyone said to be of any so-called master-race and thus human excrement as the germanics were for the mere existence of the nazi scum! In short, they would have to be slaughtered by the Czech partisans, and those guys rightly specialized in *incinerating* anyone who was even slightly associated with the subhuman nazi master-race vermin as the germanics all were for the mere existence of that party. The only good germanic is one who doesn't even exist, but used to, so as to be deprived of any eternity in the afterlife for the illegal nature of the establishment nazi statist antihuman scum like Herr Hitler and his subhuman master race as all occultists are!

[@DerSchleier]

@johnjohnson8732 You are a liar. There were only labor camps. ZoG Allied soldiers mass murdered innocent German and Italian military personnel and mass raped/mursered innocent German/Italian civilians.

[@michaelshapiro1543]

"Ruthless" means merciless, without pity or compassion. What do folks think the camp guards deserved? Flowers?

[@ebutuoy6463]

I think "RUTHLESS" is a relative term compared to the horrors that were going on at that camp...and unless you were there experiencing those horrors you have no right to judge. Some say the executions were terrible and illegal. I, from my easy chair, say that the guards got what they deserved.

[@waynela3485]

I agree, the word Ruthless should not be used in the Title of this video. Maybe Karma ?

[@cynicalPixels]

Have you every heard of Ditionary ?

[@Sunmoon-gj9gy]

War crimes is an oxymoron

[@AzzKicker-bz1cb]

@@cynicalPixels I have actually heard of a dictionary. What’s your point???

[@sid2112]

No no no it's an accurate title. There were no Ruth's anywhere near the execution area. It was completely.... RUTHLESS!

[@LasVegas68]

Can't even imagine what those guys felt when they saw what was happening. Seeing dead men and women stacked up like cord wood. Then to see those children who weren't treated any differently than the adults. If the Americans killed the guards, I can't blame them....

[@bretthamilton7248]

I totally agree. The title should be changed.

[@CraigGrant-sh3in]

My father was part of the liberating forces . He was put in charge of burying the corpses . He said you could smell rotten death five miles away. The citizens were forced to walk through the camp to see what had happened. They claimed they didn't know yet, many of them worked at the camp or delivered supplies . The camp was big and he didn't know about the executions .

[@CraigGrant-sh3in]

A small world story .One of the soldiers who under my father found a live body under a pile of dead. The soldier got him medical help. In the 1970's in Atlanta the soldiers wife worked for dentist . One day she and the dentist were talking and he told her his father was a prisoner in Dachau. She told him about he husband being there and finding a guy still alive in a pile of death. The next day the dentist came in and told her that had it not been for her husband ,he would not be here . He he had gone home the night before and called his father and told him what she had said. The father never forgot the name of the man who saved him. It was her husband

[@ivanvarykino8202]

And we know from the historical records that nearby towns could smell the death that was occurring. Think of the public rebellion over animal waste processing plants in modern day communities. These were human bodies decaying and being burned. The odor was unavoidable for many, many miles.

[@bjornbergen8900]

locals knew they were big business for the small towns, food supplies, restaurants, and pubs for the guards

[@martymar1964]

the citizens were just as complicit as the guards. They knew, the smell made liars of all of them.

[@gotcha1885]

@@martymar1964 I spent some time in Dusseldorf in 1990. There are many older guys I that had encountered who would do it all over again. They loved Adolf. To bad they got away.

[@johngrant7696]

THE JUSTIFIED ELIMINATION is a better way to phrase it. Rabid animals at best and quite possibly just plain evil.

[@rikk319]

Animals don't commit evil, humans do. Never minimize evil done by calling the perpetrators animals. They're human, they did evil, and they deserve any punishments they get.

[@threecatsandalady64]

I visited there in the 80s and you could still feel the evil there. It was bizarre and so sad.

[@gayestrand5952]

I did too, from New Zealand, in the early 2000's ... still the stench of evil was there....Bless all those inmates

[@natural-born_pilot]

Yep I too visited while stationed in Germany late 70’s. It was a side trip on the way back from the October fest.

[@mariehernandez5878]

I was there in 1983 and was planning a trip back to the states. After experiencing Dachau, I chose to start my trip the following day. I was so spooked.

[@Reneelwaring]

I was there in the 70's. 12 years old, and I cried the whole way through the place. The parents were so embarrassed they walked away from me but I could not help it. I'm a sensitive and the pain of that place was so unbearable, absolutely thick with it. As to the SS Guards, they deserved worse than they got, death was to easy for the crimes they committed.

[@Reneelwaring]

I was there in the 70's. 12 years old, and I cried the whole way through the place. The parents were so embarrassed they walked away from me but I could not help it. I'm a sensitive and the pain of that place was so unbearable, absolutely thick with it. As to the SS Guards, they deserved worse than they got, death was to easy for the crimes they committed.

[@jesusloverofmysoul8794]

You must have very much empathy. I can so relate. It can sometimes act as a curse rather than a blessing because the pain you feel can be really unbearable. It's hard for many people to understand.

[@Reneelwaring]

Maureen was my best friend, soul mates as she put it. When she got Ovarian Cancer, she made me at my request her go to person to holler at, berate, get angry at when she needed to. I told her give it to me, so your family gets the best you have to give. When she was passing (4 years later) I asked God to give me her pain so she could pass quietly without it. And he did, took several months for it to slowly diminish but she passed in peace with her family around her. I wouldn't change what I did for anything in the world. That was in 2006, and I have missed her every day since.@@jesusloverofmysoul8794

[@jamespruitt6718]

I went there about 12 years ago now. I don’t react in the same way as you, but I completely understand what you mean. For me, it was complete silence. None of us talked except maybe a whisper here and there. It was a completely surreal and eerie experience. You could feel the sadness of the area weighing on you. Walking through the gas chambers and the furnace area really had me in sort of a mad state for what was done to those people. I found some peace and irony in that there were some churches or memorial buildings set up in some areas to overcome the evil that had occurred.

[@SURVIVOR-og6dl]

I was there too, then, same age. Never forget

[@maureensebek4712]

I can’t believe your parents expected a twelve year old to handle this…

[@robinaroundtown...2194]

My uncle was a Sergeant on top of a Sherman as they liberated Buchenwald and I can tell you that ALOT of those guards never made it out...

[@danmorris8594]

Way too many did unfortunately

[@michaelsteal9128]

My uncle landed on Omaha beach with the spearhead 743 armored they later liberated Thousands from death trains and camps guarded tens of thousands of germans prisoners and didn’t feel it necessary to commit murder. His letters are eye opening. He is buried in France where he died of wounds.

[@diquadhumungersaur492]

my grandad was in a japanese pow camp ,after being bayoneted in his stomach,and the treatment of allied prisoners was horrendous but is rarely spoken about or publicised even this long afterwards..

[@user-vv2pf1sy4m]

True

[@angela2726]

They were worse than the germans. To think that you were better off in a german prison camp than in a japanise camp !

[@timothylong617]

They got less than they deserved..... My great uncle was in 3rd Army and never said a word of what happened during his time. He always said "nothing you need to know about". God bless him as he made it to 96 years old.

[@alanjameson8664]

I once worked for a former American soldier who had been part of the Dachau liberation force. Enough said.

[@CrossOfBayonne]

Spoke to a Vietnam vet whose uncle liberated Dachau with the 7th Army

[@johnshields9110]

My Uncle was captured during the Buldge attack; he was a medical aide, so the Germans put him to work caring for their injured. The ambulance he was driving they filled with German wounded and he was forced to drive back into their lines. They made it very clear if he tried an escape or foolishess, he would be shot, immediately. I think most people can grasp fighting between armies, but what the prison camps did to many people, both German and Japanese, was beyond the pale of war. My Uncle only commented that 'rabid dogs should be shot wherever they are found'. The aide camp Sargent directed my Uncle to return back toward the Allied lines when the overall advance failed; he figured he would be shot in the back, but he wasn't.

[@user-mp5zt7qj5h]

Sergeant not Sargent

[@picklesontheroad]

While I was stationed in Germany in the early 90's, we made a point to visit the concentration camps, the East-West German border and saw the "dead zones" for ourselves. Thank you for actually telling the whole story with out opinion. My mother was German, growing up post war in Darmstadt. I lived with my German grandmother for many years before joining the Army myself. This is a part of history that was never taught in German or American schools back then. In Germany, it was only talked about by those who survived the horrors of the Nazis. There were many who loved the "Amies" as we were called but there were also many who disliked that we were even there. It was still very post apocalyptic and energized. I left Germany for the last time in 1994.

[@jeanniearnold6726]

Was there three years in Fulda 11th ACR. In the 80s. we lived in a small village called Kleinlüder and was only a few miles of the border. My husband patrolled in OH 58s and Huey’s. It was a very cool experience and I realize we lived history Went to Dachau several times as people who visited us wanted to go there.

[@picklesontheroad]

@@jeanniearnold6726 Thank you. I was involved with the shut down of Fulda in the 90's. Not a lot of good memories about that, but I'm sure you might have heard. It was my favorite range to go play with a few of my toys, but someone decided that he had to take a life.

[@jeanniearnold6726]

@@picklesontheroadnot sure what you mean. What happened ?

[@picklesontheroad]

@@jeanniearnold6726 Was national news back then, but there was a love triangle that went wrong. A gall giving birth got the head of the father delivered to her hospital bed by her husband.... I was there, was not a pretty scene...I didn't see anything up close... but read about it later in the paper to explain what I saw unfolding...

[@richardsmith3585]

Full of migrants now Germany

[@ArizonaJoeHines]

I visited the site of Dachau once. The most evil place I've ever been.

[@toninatoli]

I know it's impossible, but when I was there as an 20 yr old, in 81, I tell you, I smelled burning flesh. It was the most chilling place I've ever been and I've been to many a battlefield. 😔🙏

[@Bob-gl6cg]

I was there in 1988 as a visitor. I had the pleasure of conversing with a man who was 15 years old at the time. He witnessed the incident above with his father. The Mayor did not want his town destroyed so they surrendered and led the Americans to the camp. He told me as they entered the gate, the Germans were executing Jews against a wall, actively shooting them to keep them from talking. The Germans were shot in defense of the inmates lives. Yes perhaps one or two were executed but this was war. And yes, later after the war, the American Colonel was brought up on charges, however, Patton was the acting Governor of Bavaria and had the charges dropped. This was war people, and they were committing atrocities.

[@joelaugustine3418]

Wonderful statement we wouldn't have been there if they weren't taking over the world and killing everybody. It's ridiculous this is even being talked about.

[@daleslover2771]

Seen it myself in 1976, while station in BK Germany, a whole platoon, was awarded a 4 day admit pass, After taking part in FTXs and Reforger exercises, You could never totally realize how many humans were contain there, I was amazed of stuck convoys during Reforgers exercises on the back country roads, we estimated that at a one Kilometers, (1K) there were appoxamtly 2000 soldiers in the truck convoys, if you could only imagine how many how many were contain there at Dach, that convoy would easily stretch 300k

[@aliengrey6052]

My dad liberated Dachau and he said most Germans knew what was happening and agreed with Hitler on what he was doing. Dad said the stink of death was smelt from 25 miles away.He never forgot it. I worked in Ireland for a couple of years with germans and some comments I overheard were supportive of hitler. It made me take stock of my beliefs.

[@hansjohan3150]

You know the results of the covid- injections, we all know, yet we continue to support our leaders.

[@stephensarkany3577]

And now they have their orange leader

[@russell3380]

I can't help but wondering if that is my father @11:21 he commanded a Howitzer Motor Carriage. Far to many people deny these camps existed. All the guards and commanders should have gotten it right then and there at the hands of the prisoners.

[@dorianmclean6755]

I went back and looked...In yours and His honor. May the blessings be

[@BHuang92]

I visited the execution site at Dacau. Nothing remains of it other then info about the execution. The place was miserable and i wouldve done the same thing as the Americans did!

[@deebsdeebs8664]

I have read how some of those Germans being executed were in fact from an outfit that had been brought into the area to rest and recover from recent battles. Those were not part of the Dachau system yet were thought to be and were brought in and stood against the wall while being machine gunned. The commanding officer, Lt. Col. Felix Sparks, had walked away and the the G.I’s began shooting, He ran back in between the German soldiers and the GI’s, frantically waving his .45 pistol to get the shooting stopped. Many years after the war, a photograph did indeed turn up showing Col. Sparks running into the execution area waving his pistol. He had told his superiors that he had done this yet there seemed to be one soldier - American - who made the claim that this did not happen. Col. Spsrks who became a well established lawyer after the war, felt much relief in being presented with this photo as it totally backed his story. It was Gen Patton who dismissed all of the possible upcoming proceedings when, after meeting with Col. Sparks stated, “Enough of this” and there was never any formal follow up. Sorry about the small historical novel that I just wrote… (One lil’ piece of trivia to enhance your social skills. Do you know why we are not allowed to outright purchase machine guns over the counter? It was Attorney Felix Sparks who took on the NRA to to keep this from happening. This bit of info is coming to you from a Lifetime, card carrying NRA member. )

[@shepardsmith3235]

Do you honestly think they took them to Auschwitz for R&R . Get real. These camps were strictly forbidden to all but the personnel that were assigned to it. And these were the people that were executed and they deserved it and worse. Just read the comments from the people that were there concerning the what went on there. And you will never see a comment that the guards executed were regular troops there on R&R. I can only think you are a Nazi apologist.

[@hotrodray6802]

Didn't the machine gun law start in 1938 ?

[@gotcha1885]

Col. Sparks was clearly an idiot who did not comprehend the extent of what the SS were trained to do and did do to the prisoners. Next you'll be saying that Dresden should not have been bombed even though it contained military factories and forces supporting the nazi machine Ignorance and stupidity continues to reign.

[@cdc3]

Having been to Dachau and Yad Ve Shem, having watched an aged lady look at the massive wall with the serial numbers of both those who survived and those who did not and then looking down to the number tattooed on her forearm, having seen lampshades cleverly made out of tattooed human skin, soap made from human fat, gold teeth plucked from the corpses of such places I think I can say with great confidence, there were no German soldiers at any of these camps, only sadistic monsters unworthy of any protection from the Geneva Convention. Killing these monsters out of hand was not a crime...

[@bartbullock7817]

Can you believe there are people who think this never happened, They can't seem to wrap their brain around it, Something that never should be forgotten....EVER!!!

[@harryvanhoo7235]

Coming again if the UN/WEF get their way.

[@user-vv2pf1sy4m]

only EVIL people of the kind that can do what the Nazis did believe it never happened

[@interstellar618]

" -RUTHLESS- " ... "WELL DESERVED.." You're welcome.

[@deirdre8744]

Why dos this channel call executions of perpetrators "ruthless" or "horrific" or use similar adjetctives? it would appear that given the behavior of the perpetrators they were....

[@jamiehoover9348]

Thank you

[@hodaka1000]

My father introduced me to an Australian Commando called "Scorpio" Scorpio was amongst the first to enter Kuching POW camp on the west coast of Borneo I dont know if at the time he was aware of the fate of the Sandakan POWs on Borneo's east coast, but as he's entered the gate of this camp at Kuching infront of him was a Japanese Guard on the steps of a building bowing to him and to Scorpio's left next to the gate was a Dutchman suffering from a severe case of dysentery who's bowels had come away and he was pushing his bowels back into his anus with a "smooth stick" Scorpio looked at this healthy guard bowing and looked at this poor Dutchman and shot the guard My father was one of only six survivors from more than two thousand four hundred British and Australians originally held at Sandakan he testified at the War Crimes Tribunals at Rabaul and Tokyo, some were hung but too many escaped justice

[@ericaswensonelliott]

This is so heartbreaking - this is why we must never consent today- our ancestors are rising up and telling us to REMEMBER & - DISSENT

[@hodaka1000]

@@ericaswensonelliott Yeah not wrong Erica The war criminals my father testified against at Rabaul were initially convicted on the weight of affidavits and some were sentenced to death My father and the other witnesses weren't at the initial hearing but appeared at the appeal hearings of these convicted Japanese My father gave evidence that cleared one Japanese who had been misidentified as a war criminal and had been sentenced to death He told me on seeing this soldier he said, "No that's not him" He testified to seeing this soldier taking prisoners away into the jungle and returning without them and wiping their blood from his bayonet And he told me "That was orders they all did that" He also testified that this particular Japanese soldier, "Had shown kindness to the POWs and would give them bananas" In 1988 this soldier's son came to Australia and thanked my father for his existence My father speaking from experience told me, "If there was another war find a good cave or a deep mine"

[@ericaswensonelliott]

@@hodaka1000 this breaks my heart ❤️ I’m still digesting this post 🙏

[@jimmazurek5589]

My father was in the 42d, under Col. Sparks, but was severely wounded on Mar 29, 45, before they liberated Dachau. His wounds were severe but at least he didn’t experience what his buddies did in the camp liberation. No one prepared those guys for what they would encounter.

[@don123486]

Sparks was not a member of the 42nd. He was a member of the 45th. On the day of liberation he threatened to shoot a member of the 42nd. He repeatedly talks of his contempt for members of the 42nd Division to this day. He has tried to shift all credit for liberating Dachau to the 45th Division in spite of the fact that the camp was surrendered to the 42nd.

[@kimnelson-barclay7427]

The reach of justice sometimes exceeds the bounds of law. When this happens in the worst of extreme conditions, justice requires we tolerate exceeding the law.

[@notmyname3883]

I wish I could PIN this to the top. Well said, sir.

[@Nancy-uc2tu]

I see nothing ruthless. I see justice.

[@user-nk2yc5dh4v]

what do you see when you look at what the descendants of Dachu do in Palestine today ?

[@Nancy-uc2tu]

@@user-nk2yc5dh4v you mean Israel. The Arabs start crap and the Israel fights back. Good for Israel. Israel has the Gaza Strip and the Arabs always start crap. I’m glad they don’t put up with it. Palestine doesn’t want the Jewish state. Oh well. Start crap, get put down.

[@gotcha1885]

@@user-nk2yc5dh4v There's no such place as palestine. It is and always was Israel.

[@curtiswilson3569]

@@user-nk2yc5dh4vhaha.. there is no Palestine.

[@michaelinsc9724]

Less than 50 total guards died. I think that shows incredible restraint and a large degree of protection to the majority of the guards.

[@alechamid235]

Right, and what's 50 guards compared to 6 million innocent children, women, elderly and men killed by these EVIL savages.

[@kennetth1389]

It's a shame that any guard survived the camp liberation.

[@ghw7192]

Not ruthless, justice, and it should have become the norm, IMO.

[@watctower]

they should have decorated for shooting german guards.

[@IrishCarper86]

SS deserved the worst of the worst.

[@rvdb8876]

They got off too easily with their execution. They should have been made to suffer the fate of the prisoners of Dachau. Dying of hunger and cold. But, yes, then you would lower yourself to their level.

[@ronslaughterandalice1018]

I was stationed there in 1967 and even then everything was not completely cleaned up. I lived in the town of Dachau and talked with family members that had relatives in there. I believe it's used for a police training school now. It was home for 3rd batalion 37 Artillery when I was there.

[@vibes4dazs0-06]

I was stationed there in1970. They chiseled out the swastikas over the door on the barracks and stuck in a American flag.

[@kelsiewilson]

Here's my story. My father was stationed as an intelligence officer in Germany with the US ARMY in the 1980's. In his free time, he traveled around the countryside to explore the history of both WW1 and WW2 in depth, meaning he wasn't just a walking tourist. His idea was to further his knowledge and perhaps write a book or two. Over the years, he related to me some of the observations, and photographs he had taken of locations and people that others often never get to see. He walked through the gates of Dachau on a gray, cold, snowy day and told me just walking through the gates was a very sobering and oppressive feeling. He spent several days in Munich interviewing several witnesses of the camp's operations. He was officially introduced to Trudel Junge, Adolf Hitler's last surviving secretary, who was openly living in the city of Munich. She gave my father a fairly thorough biography of herself and seemed genuine and rather proper. Dad told me when the conversation came around to the fact that she was living in close proximity to Dachau and the proof of Nazi depravity, she quickly shut down the conversation and walked him to the door. Interesting times.

[@ericaswensonelliott]

😢my great uncle was killed on the Roer Plain of Germany November 1944 - he was in Reconnaissance and survived almost 3 years in Hell on Wheels - now I’m grateful he didn’t have to see the death camps…

[@hermesten1000]

Yeah, Trudel tried to claim she was innocent and had no idea what was going on in Germany. Complete hogwash.

[@gotcha1885]

Oh there are plenty of them left.

[@mattmaloney2445]

I visited Dachau in 1984. Haunting and horrifying. I remember the glass display of religious attire sown together by the victims, Somehow the prisoners managed to hold religious services in secret. Don't ever underestimate the power of the human spirit.

[@shane1489]

Anyone who called that an American war crime was surly welcome to join the SS in their fate.

[@reneblom2160]

Technically speaking, what those G.I's did is still a war crime and a serious violation of the Geneva Convention - no matter if you like the sound of it, or not. The victors of WW2 got away with the occasional war crime, whereas those being on the loosing side went to the Nuremberg trials. Take for example the Red Army's 1940 mass killings of Polish prisoners of war in Katyn. But this was very conveniently forgotten about, when the Soviet Union also ended up on the winning side. Sure, those SS camp guards were deeply depraved human beings and a product of a toxic regime. But the War Crime Tribunal would have dealt with them in a correct and legal way. It becomes very problematic, if the willingness to respect the Geneva Convention solely depends on what mood you're in!

[@frankgesuele6298]

No way Ike was gonna allow any court martials on this.

[@PDLM1221]

War is hell! The prisoners had all the right to take things into their hands , if a Liberator looked the other way. No one , no one can feel the suffering that those prisoners went through.

[@CBaller2020]

My great uncle was one of the men who helped liberate one of the concentration camps. I don't know which one, but my Mom said the only time he talked about it was when he got drunk. God rest your soul, Uncle Wally!! 🙏

[@olumidefabikun2424]

Patton would not Charge his troops! Considering what they saw!

[@badbob6689]

I was on a business trip in Munich Germany in the early 90's and me and my coworkers decided to take some time off to tour. We went to see Dachau. I was in the back seat asleep on the drive there. I awoke with a strong feeling of dread and heard one of my co workers saying " Its got to be close by." I told him "its to our left" Just then concrete pillar with barbed wire came into view and he asked he asked me " your sleeplng, how dId you know?' " I told him "I could feel it".

[@mxplk]

The round-trip fare between Munich and Dachau is about $11 (approx. 9 Euros as of August 2023), and it takes approx. 45 minutes to get there. You take the train to the town of Dachau, then a bus to the camp itself. Admission to the Camp and all its exhibits is free. Expect to spend 3-4 hours there; It would help to read up on the history of the camp before you go.

[@dougblalock5175]

I have a good friend, now diseased who took part in that liberation. According to what he told of his experience, this is pretty accurate. He said it is unimaginable that human beings could do this kind of evil.

[@abrahamulagay4495]

You call that a war crime. Even if the camp guards were grilled on a low fire wouldn’t be a war crime after what they had done. Are you kidding me?

[@joec6532]

My father was there. 42nd division. They were stopped by a command car on the road before getting to the camp and told where they were going. In so many words they were told to take no prisoners. Once in the camp they rounded up the remaining ss and brought them to be briefly interrogated. Then taken to be shot by their BAR man. One guy dropped to his knees when shot and said, "you did not do a very good job" . My father was not a natural born killer like some guys I think but I don't believe he had any problem carrying out his orders after seeing what the SS had done.

[@gregcugola779]

Jesus man, my heart goes out to you and your dearly beloved uncle. I had an uncle who fought against the Japanese on the Kokoda trail. It was kill or be killed. People today can't get their head around that.

[@maxwill6408]

Even if these US soldiers were to have been Court Marshall I doubt if they would have been found guilty.

[@robertroth287]

"As ye sow, so shall ye reap"

[@j1st633]

If you visit Munich this camp is a must see. Easy public transportation.

[@mickeypip1524]

How much is a return bus ticket , please?

[@mxplk]

​@@mickeypip1524You can travel round-trip between Munich and Dachau Concentration Camp for about $11 (approx. 9 Euros). The Camp is only about 45 minutes from Munich.

[@garyschaaf6566]

The bottom line is sooner or later you will get what’s coming to you for your evil deeds.

[@patkearney9320]

A Jewish lady said that there was good guards but few she said in the end it made no difference because there was so little for anyone. This video was taken down very fast about three years ago. But the horrible thing was this Lady took terrible abuse from every comment. If you lie with dogs you get flees but there are nazi people who I met while working construction in Berlin in the 80s that told me the horrible facts about that time, and most Germans who minded there own business through fear where crushed simply because they were German this is a fact. I was only 17 and knew little about the camps all I knew was that those kind old German folk suffered the same as the bastards who earned and deserved there end.

[@tyra3236]

The “ruthless executions”of those who ruthlessly killed Yeah, right

[@GreyBBeard]

My dad was in the 42nd infantry and was there. Decades later He related, with tears in his eyes, the stories and sights related here. He died in 2012 and I wish I could have shown him this video.

[@Greywolfgrafix]

If I understood my uncle Charles correctly, he was with the unit that liberated Dachau, and in the battle just prior to the liberation, he'd killed an SS trooper, and brought his pistol back as a souvenir. He showed it to me a short while before he passed away. It was a little .32 caliber Mauser HSc.

[@natural-born_pilot]

Where’s the pistol now?

[@Greywolfgrafix]

@@natural-born_pilot His grandchildren got it after he passed away, but have no idea what they did with it.

[@mickeypip1524]

Which one will be in Hell....? makes you think....maybe just think before you answer the question....

[@Greywolfgrafix]

@@mickeypip1524 Possibly both. My uncle wasn't a Christian.

[@martymar1964]

my late uncle had liberated the gold teeth from several Nazis he'd encountered. He had them in a sandwich bag. My cousin showed them to me.

[@bertram_oredrock]

It would have been nearly impossible to control the anger, hatred and distain the prisoners had for the guards that tortured them. The nazi guards never made a plan to escape if the camps were taken over by the liberators, American Soldiers. WWII had many ugly moments. This was one of them. Thank you TheUntoldPast. Your history lesson is always one of remarkable facts.

[@don123486]

Dachau was liberated by both the 45th Division and the 42nd (Rainbow) Division. The camp commander surrendered the camp to the 42nd Division as stated on a plaque at the entrance to Dachau.

[@jdascout]

I went on a tour of Dacau in 1977, while stationed in W Germany. It's something that you never forget. I have never felt anything so eerie before or after. The smell, the silence, not even birds flying over. It stays with you forever.

[@666mengel]

These monsters committed the most heinous crime imaginable. They deserved every bit of punishment coming to them.

[@heskrthmatt]

“Oh, yeah…they were, ahhh…trying to escape! Yeah, that’s the ticket…”

[@joejohnson4183]

Isn't that what the nazis said to ?

[@lindaspillane103]

The Liberator One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw This is a book that describes Felix Sparks’ participation in WWII. It also includes details what happened at Dachau from Sparks’ perspective.

[@trlotz]

Incredible book

[@lindaspillane103]

@@goldenhawk352 I don’t remember if it addressed what happened in Biscari.

[@renee1961]

Thank you. I'll look for it.

[@longgrayline8055]

My father was a graduate of West Point and the private aide to General Shoemaker who was the first Allied commander to walk into Dachau. He was a Colonel at the time. He shared pictures he took of the camp the day it was liberated. My father said it was shocking. The bodies were piled head high and higher. When Eisenhower visited the camp, he walked away thinking he might just go ahead and lay waste to all of Germany and execute everyone that worked there and in the nearby villages. He decided against it. Lucky Germans.

[@johngallati8164]

I HAVE AN UNCLE WHO WAS A SCOUT..THE FIRST US SOLDIER TO SEE THAT MESS HE TOLD ME ABOUT IT 2WEEKS BEFORE HE DIED...PRETTY UNBELIEVABLE HOW IT WAS EVEN POSSIBLE

[@stevenrobinson2381]

There is an 8mm film of that. With the CO LTC Sparks waving his service pistol ordering the men to "cease fire". What those men saw that day & the days & weeks leading up to it I am in no doubt they were ALL DONE with the treachery & other heinous behavior shown by the followers of an Austrian corporal towards those who disagreed with them. As such-I have no problem whatsoever in what occurred on that day. In fact-the report of what happened made it all the way to CG 3rd Army-LGEN Patton. It is said he read the report thoroughly-then threw in into a trash can. War is a nasty nasty business.

[@clydeblair9622]

Turnabout is fair play.

[@lastcalifornian1791]

I’ll say it so it doesn’t get lost with time. Grandfather was in a group that liberated that camp. What he told me and some adults at Christmas years ago was their intelligence/bosses spotted the camp and it looked like a prison.They were told there could be American prisoners. My grandfather’s boss asked for volunteers and they split their group to take the camp. He said his group immediately knew what they were doing while walking toward the camp and they were angry and asked the guards why they didn’t abandon the camp, knowing that they were going to lose and then he said he and his group made the towns people walk through the camp and forced them look at them. Never said what he did to them, in the late 90’s most of my family knew. For reference my mom didn’t know what his job was the military until she was a teenager early 70’s. He never talked about it especially to his daughters. My grandpa was a great guy, always gave me the time of day.

[@danielmclaughlin9043]

Don't ever let them take your Guns. . . EVER!!

[@vnurcombe]

Yeh, right, let Nazis and other extremists keep their guns. Not a deep thinker, are you….

[@rblauson]

Agreed

[@mauriceholder1386]

Armed citizens will never file into cattle cars !

[@martymar1964]

the other lesson is: Don't even think of becoming a Nazi.

[@vnurcombe]

@@rblauson no, they’ll just continue to massacre each other, and particularly their children

[@markrounding2731]

A lot of the low level SS guards avoided any serious punishment or avoided punishment altogether, during the Nuremburg trials.

[@jfmax2000]

It's a Case of The Evil Deeds You Do in Life Will Not Go Unpunished.. Or Simply Put...Karma's a Bitch.. IMHO

[@ashcarrier6606]

The fact the guards stayed until Americans arrived has always been a source of bewilderment for me. That was just flat out dumb.

[@magdump4456]

They were probably just expecting to be taken as POWs like they should have been. If they were putting up some kind of armed resistance, then they should have been shot, if they handed over their weapons they should have been taken prisoner

[@marycahill546]

Germans were terrified of the Russsians. Better to be a POW under US or British care.

[@CoolGobyFish]

Lots of high ranking Nazi officials even thought they would be left in charge if they cooperated with the allies. They were completely delusional. Goring thought the same when he met American troops. Weird people

[@chrismiller9032]

Marine code I understand. Our enemy thinks his death will allow him to meet God. Our job is to facilitate the meeting. No one should shed tears by the executions of the SS. From Casablanca "we are trying to figure out if he committed suicide or was shot trying to escape"

[@accousticdecay]

I visited Dachau about 35 years after the war ended. The crematorium still reeked so badly of burnt human flesh that I nearly vomited. I cannot blame the American soldiers for their drastic actions, for I may well have done likewise.

[@grayharker6271]

Col. Sparks wrote and excellent book that covers this and other events inside Germany.

[@robynfoss9449]

My father as a U.S.Army soldier was there at Dachau. It was horrendous what the German guards did to the prisoners. Stacks of dead bodies,30 rail cars stacked full of dead and rotting bodies, skin and bone prisoners, and trenches of dead bodies. Shock and awe, devastation and inhumanity met the American soldiers as they came into Dachau. The horrific sights and smell of human death was overpowering.

[@deathfromabove-oo7mm]

My grandpa liberated this camp...good riddance if they liquidated guards.they deserved it,I have photos from camp,its horrific to think of what he saw and lived with as a medic when they found this camp.

[@rogerdodrill4733]

The image I remember is burying skinny dead bodies in a ditch with a bulldozer as if they were never human, just more dirt. The operator held a cloth over his face with 1 hand c of stench

[@mikecapozzi2597]

It was not ruthless at all, it was simply justice.

[@josephscarpaci3688]

My father told me that his was the first tank in the liberation of the camp & was ordered by his CO to fire his 50 caliber as warning shots over the out of control troops & offered assistance to an inmate. That inmate inmate went on Unsolved Mysteries to find my dad a year after pop died.

[@gcookz86]

Great episode. I would have liked to see these be quite a bit more ruthless.

[@joelbeske1504]

Eliminating the "Devils" minions isn't a war crime.

[@Gaagaapeepappppppppppppppppppp]

Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!