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47. Agreed...

Wed Apr 12, 2023, 11:36 PM

Apr 2023

Dachau just has a dark dark vibe.

Some say it's darker than Auschwitz. Typhus, cruelty, bitter cold...

All the wartime misery... even the liberation was horrific.

First, US GI's find rail cars full of bodies and then they allowed the prisoners to assault the Nazis and even lined up wounded Nazis from the field hospital against a wall and machine gunned them.

Irony was, the camp guards had mostly left and the Nazis killed at the camp had no connection to the camp.

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