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Category : OSS & SOE, SS Dachau
Tags: Dachau, Holocaust, Shoah, Waffen SS
Dachau 1933 – 1945, will stand for all time as one of history’s most gruesome symbols of inhumanity. There our troops found sights, sounds and stenches horrible beyond belief, cruelties so enormous as to be incomprehensible to the normal mind. Dachau and death were synonymous. No words or pictures can carry the full impact of these unbelievable scenes bit this report presents some outstanding facts and photographs on some order to emphasize the type of crime which elements of the SS committed thousands of time a day, to remind us of the ghastly capabilities of certain classes of men, to strengthen our determination that they and their works shall vanish from the earth. The sections comprising this report were prepared by the agencies indicated. They remain substantially as they were originally submitted in the belief that consolidate this material in a single literary style would seriously weaken this realism.
William W. Quinn
A C of S, G2
7th US Army
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Category : Shoah & Holocaust
Tags: Admiral Byrd, Aichach, Ammunition Factory, Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Berlin, Bitch of Belsen, Bitch of Buchenwald, Block 41, Body Disposal Plant, Brig Gen Eric F. Wood, Brig Gen Handford McNider, Buchenwald, Buchenwälder Schlampe, Commandant René l'Hopital, Commandant William Bullitt, CWO S. M. Dye, Dachau, Die Hexe von Buchenwald, Franklin D'Olier, French 1st Army, Gen de Lattre de Tassigny, Germany, Holocaust, Irma Grese, Karl Koch, Kleine Glattbach, Little Camp, Lt Col Chas H. Ott, Lt Walter F. Emmons, Maj Gen Frank Parker, Medical Experimentation Building, Nazi Party, Oberaufseherin, Pasteur Institute, Ravensbrück, Regular Barracks, Shoah, The Hospital, Theodore Roosevelt Jr, University of Caen, University of Paris, Weimar, Witch of Buchenwald
Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. G-5
US Group Control Council.
Inspection of German concentration camp for political prisoners located at Buchenwald on the north edge of Weimar, made by :
- Brig Gen Eric F. Wood
- Lt Col Chas H. Ott
- CWO S. M. Dye
on the morning of April 16th 1945. PW & DP Division
US Group Control Council APO 742
Annex No. To Rcn. Report of April 21st 1945
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