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Hell Before Their Very Eyes - American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945 (Paperback) Loot Price: R629
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Hell Before Their Very Eyes - American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945 (Paperback): John C. McManus

Hell Before Their Very Eyes - American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945 (Paperback)

John C. McManus

Series: Witness to History

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On April 4, 1945, United States Army units from the 89th Infantry Division and the 4th Armored Division seized Ohrdruf, the first of many Nazi concentration camps to be liberated in Germany. In the weeks that followed, as more camps were discovered, thousands of soldiers came face to face with the monstrous reality of Hitler's Germany. These men discovered the very depths of human - imposed cruelty and depravity: rail road cars stacked with emaciated, lifeless bodies; ovens full of incinerated human remains; warehouses filled with stolen shoes, clothes, luggage, and even eyeglasses; prison yards littered with implements of torture and dead bodies; and-perhaps most disturbing of all - the half-dead survivors of the camps. For the American soldiers of all ranks who witnessed such powerful evidence of Nazi crimes, the experience was life altering. Almost all were haunted for the rest of their lives by what they had seen, horrified that humans from ostensibly civilized societies were capable of such crimes. Military historian John C. McManus sheds new light on this often overlooked aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on a rich blend of archival sources and thousands of first hand accounts-including unit journals, interviews, oral histories, memoirs, diaries, letters, and published recollections - Hell Before Their Very Eyes focuses on the experiences of the soldiers who liberated Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, and Dachau and their determination to bear witness to this horrific history.

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Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Witness to History
Release date: November 2015
First published: 2015
Authors: John C. McManus
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-1765-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Defence strategy, planning & research > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > European history > General
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LSN: 1-4214-1765-0
Barcode: 9781421417653

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