| Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany: April 30, 1945 |
| WARNING: This page contains graphic images of war and death. |
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The day after Dachau concentration camp was liberated, Chaplin Godfrey, one of my tentmates, was ordered to visit the camp. |
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Art Wallace and I were off duty and were allowed to accompany him to view one of the greatest atrocities committed by the Nazi regime. |
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| We traveled up the Autobahn, through the wreckage of Ulm, to the Dachau off-ramp ... |  |
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... and found a sign directing us either to the S.S. barracks or the concentration camp. |
| The Dachau camp consisted of a row of apartments for employees and the 200 S.S. guards along the entrance road, with a factory area behind these large buildings. In the center of the camp, surrounded by a moat and high electrified fence, were barracks for the 32,000 prisoners. |
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| Although the German guards were lying dead in the streets, the surviving prisoners were still confined to their compound because of a typhus epidemic. |
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| The most gruesome scenes in the camp were the gas chambers and cremating ovens. |
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| Storage bins for bodies awaiting cremation were all filled, so the overflow had simply been piled up outside. |
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