[The following is in regards to the liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp.]
According to Jack Hallett, one of the camp’s liberators, interviewed decades later:
Control was gone after the sights we saw, and the men were deliberately wounding guards that were available and then turned them over to the prisoners and allowing them to take their revenge on them. And, in fact, you’ve seen the picture where one of the soldiers gave one of the inmates a bayonet and watched him behead the man. It was a pretty gory mess. A lot of the guards were shot in the legs so that they couldn’t move and… and that’s about all I can say.
Germans were gunned down while surrendering; captives were shot at the slightest provocation; in once instance, men guarding over a hundred captured Germans turned their machine guns on their prisoners and killed them all; and American soldiers stood by as camp prisoners turned on their former guards and tormenters.
Source:
Bessel, Richard. “Revenge.” Germany 1945: From War to Peace. New York, NY, HarperCollins, 2009. 164. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Abzug, Inside the Vicious Heart, p. 93, 94.
Further Reading:
Konzentrationslager (KZ) Dachau (Dachau Concentration Camp)
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