American Military News by Ryan Morgan April 29, 2020
Seventy-five years ago the U.S. Army liberated Dachau, a concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany during World War II.
On April 29, 1945 the U.S. Army’s 42nd Infantry Division, now a part of the New York Army National Guard, uncovered the concentration camp in the town of Dachau, near Munich Germany. According to a press release by the New York National Guard, the frontline soldiers in the Army unit knew there was a prison camp in the area, but knew few details about the camp’s true nature.
“What the Soldiers discovered next at Dachau left an impression of a lifetime,†the division assistant chaplain (Maj.) Eli Bohnen wrote at the time, according to the release. ““Nothing you can put in words would adequately describe what I saw there. The human mind refuses to believe what the eyes see. All the stories of Nazi horrors are underestimated rather than exaggerated.â€
On Wednesday, members of the U.S. Navy’s 6th Fleet and the Israeli Defense Force bands played the Israeli national anthem in tribute to a survivor at the Dachau concentration camp who later became an Israeli national.
April 29 also marks the 72nd anniversary of Israel’s founding as a nation. Israel was formed on April 29, 1948 exactly three years after the Dachau liberation.
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