The book explains that on April 29 1945, a Sunday afternoon, the the 45th Infantry Division liberated the camp whilst on its way to the city of Munich, which was 12 miles to the south.īut before they even got into the main barracks, 'Hitler's Last Day' reveals that they were left shocked and profoundly disturbed by what they saw. Over the weekend dignitaries from around the world including German chancellor Angela Merkel assembled in Dachau to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberationīut little was made of the episode which features heavily in 'Hitler's Last Day' by Jonathan Mayo and Emma Craigie, which strings together the events that marked the end of WWII. Historians have since concluded that it was probably a war crime, though at the time the charges were dismissed by General George Patton who told the accused they could go home - with their honor intact. Prisoners lived under brutal conditions there were 32,000 documented deaths at the camp, and thousands that are undocumented Dachau was the first concentration camp opened ostensibly to hold political prisoners under Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.
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