The American soldiers wondered how this could have happened. Many were burned in the crematorium or buried, but thousands of corpses remained aboveground. In Dachau’s 12 years of existence, approximately 41,500 people had been killed there and in its subcamps. They were given barely any food they died from disease and malnutrition, or they were executed. Its prisoners were subjected to hard labor, corporal punishment, and torturous medical experiments. It had operated as a training center for SS guards and served as the prototype for other camps. They vomited they cried.ĭachau was about 10 miles northwest of Munich, and was the first concentration camp built by the Nazi regime. Soldiers turned their heads and covered their noses as the sight and smell of the bodies washed over them. When Dachau was liberated in April and American forces came upon the railcars near the camp, they found corpses packed on top of one another. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
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