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Hell Before Their Very Eyes - American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945 (Paperback)
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Hell Before Their Very Eyes - American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945 (Paperback)
Series: Witness to History
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Loot Price R514
Discovery Miles 5 140
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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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