Article: The Liberation of Dachau April 29, 1945

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Liberation of Dachau

April 29, 1945. On this date, US Army divisions liberated approximately 32,000 prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp.
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On April 29, 1945, American forces liberated Dachau. As they neared the camp, they found more than 30 railroad cars filled with bodies brought to Dachau, all in an advanced state of decomposition.
 
Visiting Dachau and Auschwitz will forever give you the ability to look at someone sideways when for any reason they exclaim.. Aww noone would ever do something like that. Those two places and others prove that to be a false statement no matter what one imagines is beyond human behaviour.
 
Windini said:
Qualifying my "like" as a vote in favor of keeping history alive. All of it.
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When I was a young boy in Brooklyn, NY I would visit my grandparents all the time, one of the neighbors on the block in this Italian and Jewish neighborhood was Mr. Max, I noticed he had a number on his arm, I asked him about it, my mom told me to mind my mouth, Mr. Max said he wanted to talk to us about it, he explained what it was for and that it was ok to talk about it so such a thing would never happen ever again.
 
My youngest and some of her girlfriends went to DC and touring a few of the museums.
She said the WWII museum with the stack of shoes was the most intense thing she saw.
She told me the image still pops into her head on random occasions.
 
When I worked p/t at a sales job in a store like a Kmart, my coworker had a number on her arm, my other coworker asked me if I noticed it, I said yes, she asked me what could it be for, I told her she was in a concentration camp as a young girl, it brought tears to her eyes.
 
Visited Dachau... And when younger met and heard stories directly from a survivor who had the tattoo and showed it when discussing those times ...

All humbling, and disturbing!

As a student of history, and military history especially... I find it perplexing humanities propensity for both it's compassion and beauty, while in contrast having the ability to exhibit unimaginable grotesque horrors!

We are the only animal that blushes, or needs to ...
 
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If you ever get a chance to see one of the camps in person I recommend it.
I went in 2019 during a trip to Germany and it was surreal how quiet and peaceful the place is currently. It's truly right in the backyard of Munich and the town of Dachau.
The History Museums do a good job giving a scale of the atrocity, but seeing it in person really makes manifest that there were "normal" people on both sides of the bars and the people surrounding absolutely had to know what was happening, even if they weren't directly part of it. None of the structures or grounds aside from the fences and towers really seem that oppressive or out of place and I really think that made it easier for those around to ignore it and go on with their lives. I plan on bringing my family there one day.
 
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If you ever get a chance to see one of the camps in person I recommend it.
I went in 2019 during a trip to Germany and it was surreal how quiet and peaceful the place is currently. It's truly right in the backyard of Munich and the town of Dachau.
The History Museums do a good job giving a scale of the atrocity, but seeing it in person really makes manifest that there were "normal" people on both sides of the bars and the people surrounding absolutely had to know what was happening, even if they weren't directly part of it. None of the structures or grounds aside from the fences and towers really seem that oppressive or out of place and I really think that made it easier for those around to ignore it and go on with their lives. I plan on bringing my family there one day.
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What was even more crazy was the structures weren't razed post war! They were used for housing up to the 60's because of everything being bombed out. But still... Who would live there? Nuts!!!
 
When I was a teen, the attendant at the local covienent store had a serial number on his arm. I asked him if that is what I think it is, he nodded yes. We didn't talk about it...
 
Cooolone said:
What was even more crazy was the structures weren't razed post war! They were used for housing up to the 60's because of everything being bombed out. But still... Who would live there? Nuts!!!
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From the closing narration of the Twilight Zone episode: Death's Head Revisited (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths-Head_Revisited).

"Dachau. Why does it still stand? Why do we keep it standing?"
There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes; all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth.
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I will probably never understand why so many Jewish people support the people who literally want to have a second Holocaust here in this country.
 
I have never understood that "work will set you free" bit. Working will not change what got them thrown into the place in the first place. You cannot work yourself out of being a Jew.
 
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