He saw Dachau’s horrors — now, this vet warns against Holocaust denial

[rangerrebew]

He saw Dachau’s horrors — now, this vet warns against Holocaust denial
By The Associated Press
 May 28, 2024, 02:25 PM
 
World War II veteran Hilbert Margol and his twin brother, Howard Margol, were a part of the 42nd Infantry Division that liberated the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945. (Brynn Anderson/AP)
DUNWOODY, Ga. — A profile of Hilbert Margol, of Dunwoody, Georgia, one of a dwindling number of veterans took part in the Allies’ European war effort that led to the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Army Pfc. Hilbert Margol
Born: Feb. 22, 1924, Jacksonville, Florida.


Service: Army, Battery B, 392nd Field Artillery Battalion, 42nd Infantry Division. Was part of a unit, also including his twin brother, Howard Margol, that liberated the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945.

“Outlive the offspring of the deniers”
Victory over Germany was in sight for the Allies on April 29, 1945, as the 42nd Infantry Division stormed toward Munich. Hilbert Margol and his twin brother Howard, now deceased, were part of an artillery convoy heading for the city on a two-lane road through the woods. As Margol remembers it, the convoy was stopped and the Howard brothers were permitted by their sergeant to investigate the source of a stench wafting over the area. After a short walk through the woods they spotted boxcars.

A human leg dangled from one of them.

https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2024/05/28/he-saw-dachaus-horrors-now-this-vet-warns-against-holocaust-denial/

[mountaineer]

I've visited a few concentration camps - Dachau and Flossenburg in Germany, and Struthof Natzwiller in France - and can attest that there's no more sobering experience. We were at Flossenburg in a pouring rain, and I tried to picture the inmates standing in weather like that, and worse, during roll call for hours on end. Very sad.

[DefiantMassRINO]

When enlisted during the Korean War Era, my uncle worked in a unit that worked with film.  He had access to the raw footage from the World War II concentration camps.  He was godsmacked by the raw footage he saw.

As a kid, he told me the Holocaust was real, and worse than what we are allowed to see.  He said the Holocaust deniers were full of $h!t.