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(2,709 posts)On 29 April 1945, Soldiers of the Greatest Generation were so incensed and outraged after seeing the horrors of the Dachau Concentration Camp, some of them summarily executed unarmed SS guards before the commanders could stop them, a direct violation of the Geneva Convention.
US soldiers execute SS camp guards lined up against a wall during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
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It wasnt just the American soldiers who reportedly took revenge on the SS guards. It was the inmates too.
One of the prisoners, Walenty Lenarczyk, said that immediately following the liberation the prisoners gained a newfound sense of courage. They caught the SS men and knocked them down and nobody could see whether they were stomped or what, but they were killed. As Lenarczyk put it, We were, all these years, animals to them and it was our birthday.
Theres a reporting of two liberated prisoners beating a German guard to death with a shovel and another witnessed account of a liberated prisoner stomping repeatedly on the face of a guard.
One vivid memory Jack Goldman recalled from the liberation was the American troops taking their names. He said, For the first time, we were no longer numbers.
No US Army Soldiers nor prisoners were prosecuted.
Was this justice, vengeance, or karma?
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https://allthatsinteresting.com/dachau-reprisals
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