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Echoes of Liberation: Untold Stories from Dachau

Explore the silence surrounding Dachau's liberation, where US soldiers' actions were shrouded in mystery post-World War II. Discover the poignant accounts of survivors and the controversial decision made at the time. Dive into the dark chapters of history that shaped the aftermath of the Holocaust.

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Echoes of Liberation: Untold Stories from Dachau

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  1. Holocaust Part VI Daniel W. Blackmon IB HL History Coral Gables Sr. High

  2. Liberation • My uncle was one of the men who liberated Dachau. It was not a subject he ever spoke about.

  3. Liberation • .I have since learned that US soldiers, discovering the piles of corpses at Dachau, collected the SS guards and executed them on the spot. Charges for murder were filed against the men, but Gen. George S. Patton quashed the procedure.

  4. Survivors at Dachau

  5. Prisoners Who Died En Route to Dachau

  6. Corpses for burial at Dachau

  7. Corpse for burial at Dachau

  8. GI’s Prepare to Execute SS Guards at Dachau

  9. Estimated Death Toll

  10. Estimated Death Toll

  11. Estimated Death Toll

  12. Estimated Death Toll

  13. Estimated Death Toll

  14. Estimated Death Toll

  15. Estimated Death Toll

  16. “No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were;

  17. “any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. “ John Donne

  18. Works Cited • Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union. Arad, Yitzhak, Gutman, Yisrael, and Margaliot, Abraham, Ed. Lea Ben Dor Trans. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1981.

  19. Works Cited • Fleming, Gerald. Hitler and the Final Solution. Berkeley: Universtiy of California Press, 1982. • Fogel, Ephraim. “Shipment to Maidanek.” Holocaust Poetry. Ed. Hilda Schiff. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995. p. 57.

  20. Works Cited • Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War. New York: Henry Holt, 1985

  21. Works Cited • Gordon, Sarah. Hitler, Germans, and the "Jewish Question." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. • Jäckel, Eberhard. Hitler's World View. Trans. Herbert Arnold. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.

  22. Works Cited • Kershaw, Ian. The Nazi Dictatorship: Problelms nad Perspectives of Interpretation. 4th Ed. London: Edward Arnold, 2000

  23. Works Cited • The Nazi Concentration Camps. Ed. Gutman, Yisrael, and Saf Avital .Jerusalem: Yad Vashem 1984. • Niemöller, Martin. “First They Came for the Jews.” Holocaust Poetry. Ed. Hilda Schiff. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995. p. 9.

  24. Works Cited • Noakes, J. and Pridham, G. Nazism: A Documentary Reader. Volume III "Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination" Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 1984,

  25. Works Cited • Wiesel, Elie. “Never Shall I Forget.” Holocaust Poetry. Ed. Hilda Schiff. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995. p. 42 • Yahil, Leni. The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

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