Garand Picture of the day #116 Dachau Concentration Camp

[Sully]

I recall Dachau from a 1980 visit. That administration building had an SS torture yard in the rear of it...and just behind that was the sports field for the high school located next door. Talk about "never forget"!

My wife went to an elementary school by the name of "Target Range" and a high school named "Hell Gate", but it would be sad to go to a "Dachau High".

Some buildings at Dachau housed inmates who voluntarily stayed until as late as 1962, I believe as they had no other place to go. I suspect the Government paid that bill.

Very somber place, then, there was a convent located, added later, at the back of Dachau.

Thanks,

Sully

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[mojalajab]

Auschwitz - Here is a recently discovered picture (left) of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. The smoke on the left-hand side of the picture is being produced by the mass burning of bodies in funeral pits. During the war's closing stages the camp's crematoriums were unable to burn all the people murdered by the Nazis.

Roll call - This is another picture of Auschwitz (right). Prisoners lining up for roll call can be seen in the photograph's center.

On missions to Germany, my father in-law's B-24 flew over some of the concentration camps and wanted desperately to bomb the camps so that the prisoners could have a chance to escape and survive. But, alas the AAF prohibited it.