History Series: Dachau
History of the Liberation of Dachau, Part 2: April 30, 1945
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4 min readApr 30, 2024
In Part 1, I discussed the Nazi Concentration Camps and the initial movement of US Army divisions into Dachau.
Dachau: The Camp
As my father and the 42nd “Rainbow” Division moved into the Dachau Concentration Camp, of the 32,000 survivors still alive in the main…