Holocaust survivor was standing in line for the gas chamber on the day that...
Today, the United States Holocaust Museum is celebrating its 20th anniversary. You can read about it online here. This quote is from the news article about the USHMM: For 20 years, the U.S. Holocaust...
View ArticleA German Jew writes a letter to his wife and mentions the liberation of Dachau
Fritz Schnaittacher, a Jew who had been living in Germany until 1933, was an intelligence officer with the U.S. Seventh Army in Germany during World War II. Fritz Schnaittacher You can read the full...
View ArticleJewish survivor of Dachau tells students about witnessing prisoners being...
Elly Gotz was only in the Dachau main camp for two days before the camp was liberated, but he witnessed prisoners being killed in the gas chamber. He told an audience of students about the Dachau gas...
View ArticleDid the American liberators of Dachau know that there was a typhus epidemic...
This morning, I read a news article in the online Redding Eagle newspaper, which tells the story of Frank Stevenson, Jr. who was at Dachau when the camp was liberated on April 29, 1945. Dachau guards...
View ArticleDachau tour guides who tell lies should be thrown into prison for 5 years
Before you say that Dachau tour guides don’t tell lies, read this quote from another blog: One thing I didn’t realize was that the [Dachau] camp wasn’t immediately emptied and shut down following the...
View ArticleDid a 62-year-old nun with a slegdehammer really make an opening in a guard...
Earlier today, I wrote a long comment on my blog about a blog post written by another blogger. My new post today is a continuation of my criticism of what my fellow blogger wrote. I am writing about...
View ArticleTour guide tells students about a “man-made hill” that was put into place at...
On May 19, I blogged about tour guides at Dachau who tell lies about the history of the camp. Now it has come to my attention that another tour guide at Dachau is telling some very dubious stories...
View ArticleIron hooks over the ovens at Dachau where prisoners were hung to watch as...
The title of my blog post today comes from a quote from a letter which a 19-year-old American soldier sent to his family after he was taken to see the Dachau concentration camp in July 1945. Dachau had...
View ArticleDachau tour guides must be certified, in order to keep Neo-Nazis from...
I have been to the Dachau Memorial Site several times, beginning with my first visit in May 1997, but I have never taken a guided tour. Now I am very glad that I never took a guided tour. I might...
View Articlea detailed analysis of Jimmy Gentry’s claim that he was one of the liberators...
Jimmy Gentry of Franklin, TN was a soldier with the 42nd Rainbow Division. In an interview with G. Petrone and M. Skinner on 2/25/2000, he recalled what it was like on April 29, 1945, the day that...
View ArticleLittle girl with a hand grenade….the liberation of Hadamar by American soldiers
With nothing better to do on a lazy Summer day, I got out my copy of David L. Israel’s book The Day the Thunderbird Cried, Untold Stories of World War II. I read this book, which was first published...
View ArticleEgon Zill, the worst Commandant of Dachau, wasn’t even a Commandant
Photo of a German soldier who may or may not be Egon Zill Egon Zill has gone down in history as the worst Commandant of the Dachau concentration camp, although he was never the Commandant of the camp....
View ArticleWhy was the report on the “Investigation of Alleged Mistreatment of German...
German POWs being executed by American soldiers in a coal yard inside the SS garrison The bodies of the dead SS soldiers, shown in the photo above, were left in the coal yard at Dachau, where they had...
View ArticleIt is “disgusting that the camp guards were allowed to live at all”
The title of my blog post today is a quote from a comment on a previous post on my blog on July 25, 2013. This quote is from the comment: “I think its disgusting that the camp guaards were allowed to...
View ArticleConcentration camp prisoners who wore a black triange will be honored in a...
Dachau triangle sculpture has no black triangle (1997 photo) According to the current news, the mentally and physically disabled in Nazi Germany wore a black triangle in the concentration camps. The...
View Article“Hitler started with the gays…” Say what?
On her news show “Outfront,” news commentator Erin Burnett talked about President Obama’s appearance on the Jay Leno show. On the Leno show, the subject of Russia came up, since Obama is planning to...
View Articlethe misaprehension that homosexual men were murdered by the Nazis for being gay
It has come to my attention, from reading comments made on my blog, that there is a belief that homosexual men were arrested, in Nazi Germany, simply because of their sexual orientation, and that...
View ArticleHolocaust survivor Steve Ross, recovering from a stroke, can’t remember...
Steve Ross is the young boy on the far left, standing at the barbed wire fence around Dachau According to a news article, which you can read in full here, Holocaust survivor Steve Ross, shown in the...
View ArticleNorman Coulson, the American soldier who stayed at Dachau for a year after...
I read the story of Norman Coulson in an article in The Evening Sun, which you can read in full here. Norman Coulson was at Dachau for a year after the camp was liberated This quote is from The Evening...
View ArticleAmerican soldier, who saw Dachau, also remembers “starving German children,...
Alvin Law is a 90-year-old veteran of World War II, now living in a retirement home in Plainview, TX. He recently gave an interview, to an online Plainview newspaper, which you can read in full here....
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