The Horrific Executions of the Guards of Dachau Concentration Camp
In the last days of April 1945, the famous American Army Rainbow Infantry Division arrived at Dachau camp, with the order of liberating the camp.
Its commander, Major General Harry J. Collins, had heard some unspeakable stories about that wretched place and took it upon himself to save the poor souls that were imprisoned in the camp.
What ensued was a bloodbath where disarmed Nazi guards were slaughtered both by the American Army and the inmates themselves. Allies tried to hide this event, so it is little known. Months later, on November 1945, the trial of forty of the surviving SS guards began.
Unlike the Nuremberg Trials, which targeted mostly Nazi higher-ups, these men were the direct perpetrators of heinous crimes. Most of them met the same fate, which now lied at the end of a noosed rope.
In either way, they faced the consequences of their actions against humanity.
The Bloody Liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp
April 29, 1945. After receiving some disturbing intelligence reports, Major General Harry J. Collins, commander of the Forty-Second Infantry Division, nicknamed “Rainbow”, coordinated a joint effort to storm the Dachau concentration camp in southern Bavaria.
https://youtu.be/7gOsXDMlUOY?si=Vl2Z0rM2yEjoipjTThe Horrific Executions of the Guards of Dachau Concentration Camp
In the last days of April 1945, the famous American Army Rainbow Infantry Division arrived at Dachau camp, with the order of liberating the camp.
Its commander, Major General Harry J. Collins, had heard some unspeakable stories about that wretched place and took it upon himself to save the poor souls that were imprisoned in the camp.
What ensued was a bloodbath where disarmed Nazi guards were slaughtered both by the American Army and the inmates themselves. Allies tried to hide this event, so it is little known. Months later, on November 1945, the trial of forty of the surviving SS guards began.
Unlike the Nuremberg Trials, which targeted mostly Nazi higher-ups, these men were the direct perpetrators of heinous crimes. Most of them met the same fate, which now lied at the end of a noosed rope.
In either way, they faced the consequences of their actions against humanity.
The Bloody Liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp
April 29, 1945. After receiving some disturbing intelligence reports, Major General Harry J. Collins, commander of the Forty-Second Infantry Division, nicknamed “Rainbow”, coordinated a joint effort to storm the Dachau concentration camp in southern Bavaria.
https://youtu.be/7gOsXDMlUOY?si=Vl2Z0rM2yEjoipjT
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