Crimes & persecution
Liberation of Dachau
29 April 1945 · Dachau, Bavaria
On 29 April 1945 units of the US 45th and 42nd Infantry Divisions reached Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, opened in 1933. They liberated about 32,000 prisoners and found a train of some 40 wagons filled with corpses at the camp siding. Over 41,000 people had died in Dachau and its sub-camps.
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