Garand Picture of the day #116 Dachau Concentration Camp

[Mark in Rochester]

Moments after American soldiers executed SS troops in the coalyard at Dachau.

U.S. soldiers, shocked at what they discovered in the concentration camp, shot and killed a number of German SS guards as they attempted to surrender, including the crew of the Tower B. A group of four SS soldiers who having already surrendered to Lt. William P. Walsh were shot by him, and a soldier under his command, in a railway box car Walsh was outraged and shocked after seeing hundreds of dead bodies stuffed into a railway car. In another incident about twelve German POWs were shot and killed with another three or four wounded in a coal storage area. The officers and soldiers involved pleaded that the prisoners were trying to escape, but the United States official investigation into the incident cast serious doubt on this defence.


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