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The Dachau Massacre took place in the Dachau concentration camp, near Dachau, Germany, on April 29, 1945 during World War II. Copyright 1986. ...
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The Dachau concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp near the city of Dachau, north of Munich, in Bavaria (southern Germany). ...
This article is about Dachau town. ...
April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ...
1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ...
Combatants Allies: • Soviet Union, • UK & Commonwealth, • USA, • France/Free France, • China, • Poland, • ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Japan, • Italy, • ...and others Commanders Strength Casualties Full list Full list World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a large scale military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. ...
The incident happened following the surrender of Dachau concentration camp to soldiers of the 45th Division of the US Seventh Army. The Seventh United States Army, also known as USAREUR, is the main American force in Europe. ...
The last leader of the camp's prisoners was Oskar Müller (an anti-fascist), who later became minister of labor for Hessia. According to the report of Father Johannes Maria Lenz, Müller sent two prisoners to bring the U.S. army to free the camp, because orders had come in to kill all the prisoners.
US soldiers shocked at what they discovered in concentration camp gunned down several SS men taken prisoner. The nearby Red Cross hospital housed wounded soldiers from the Eastern front found unfit for duty. The outraged US soldiers entered the hospital and ordered everyone out. The soldiers decided to separate SS men from regular soldiers; however, there is no certainty that this separation was done accurately. It is alleged that those killed included members of the regular Wehrmacht and Waffen SS volunteers from Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Denmark. As soon as the shooting started, the division commander Colonel Sparks was alerted by the sound of gunfire, and ran over and stopped the shooting. Colonel Sparks would be a regimental commander, not the division commander. The divsion commander at the time was MG Robert T. Frederick. SS or ss or Ss may be: The Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force Steamship (SS) (ship prefix) The United States Secret Service A submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN A Soviet/Russian surface-to-surface missile, as listed by NATO reporting name Shortstop...
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Wehrmacht ▶ (help· info) was the name of the armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945. ...
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Lt. Col. Joseph Whitaker, the Seventh Army's Assistant Inspector General, was subsequently ordered to investigate after witnesses came forward testifying to the massacre. The soldiers involved in shooting the POWs were court-martialed; however, General George Patton ordered that they receive no further penalties. Many of the documents and name tags of the POWs were subsequently lost or destroyed and the bodies buried in unmarked mass graves. A court-martial (plural courts-martial) is a military court that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military law. ...
General George Smith Patton Jr. ...
The U.S. troops also forced citizens of the local community to come to the camp, observe the conditions, and help clean the facilities. The local residents were indignant at being treated this way and claimed no knowledge of the activities of the camp.
References
- Goodell, Stephen, Kevin A Mahoney; Sybil Milton (1995). "1945: The Year of Liberation". Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. ISBN 0896047008
- Buechner, Howard A. (1986). Dachau - The Hour of the Avenger: An Eyewitness Account. Metairie, La., U.S.A: Thunderbird Press. ISBN 0913159042
- Marcuse, Harold (2001). "Legacies of Dachau : The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521552044
See also This article is about Dachau town. ...
Massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass killings, especially of noncombatant civilians, that would qualify as war crimes or atrocities. ...
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