When American troops liberated prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp, Germany, in 1945, many German SS guards were killed by the prisoners who then threw their bodies into the moat surrounding the camp. [860 x760]
Known as the Dachau Massacre, a tragedy really, because the guards left the camp a few days earlier and left young draftees under an ss officer in charge. Those draftees wanted to leave the camp and withdraw but were convinced by the red cross of all things, to leave a small crew behind to prevent looting and riots. Those unlucky draftees who didn’t really have anything to do with the camp were the ones murdered there for revenge. The people deserving of the revenge were long gone.
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Known as the Dachau Massacre, a tragedy really, because the guards left the camp a few days earlier and left young draftees under an ss officer in charge. Those draftees wanted to leave the camp and withdraw but were convinced by the red cross of all things, to leave a small crew behind to prevent looting and riots. Those unlucky draftees who didn’t really have anything to do with the camp were the ones murdered there for revenge. The people deserving of the revenge were long gone.