Today in History: The Liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp

04/29/10

On April 29, 1945—one week before the end of World War II in Europe—the U.S. Seventh Army liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, Germany. They found 32,000 prisoners—most of them sick, dirty, and emaciated—as well as boxcars and warehouses piled with the decaying remains of other prisoners who had died. One of the leaders of the liberating forces, Brigadier General Felix L. Sparks, offers a vivid recollection of the liberation of Dachau. Such personal accounts, as well as photographs and news reports chronicling the horrifying conditions at Dachau, helped alert the world to the tragedy of the Holocaust.

Read FELIX L. SPARKS’S RECOLLECTION OF THE LIBERATION OF DACHAU

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