Dachau memorial marks 80 years since liberation of Nazi camp : NPR

A still from a documentary film shows a U.S. soldier reaching out to outstretched hands of prisoners of the liberated Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, in then West Germany, in April 1945, during World War II.

A nonetheless from a documentary movie exhibits a U.S. soldier reaching out to outstretched fingers of prisoners of the liberated Nazi focus camp at Dachau, in then West Germany, in April 1945, throughout World Struggle II.

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BERLIN — It’s the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany’s Dachau focus camp, and to commemorate, the Dachau memorial website north of Munich is dedicating a plaque in honor of the U.S. Military’s forty fifth Infantry Division that first encountered greater than 30,000 prisoners alive on the camp on April 29, 1945.

The memorial website will host a number of days of official remembrance on the location of the previous focus camp, the place at least 40,000 people have been killed or died of starvation and sickness between 1933 and 1945. That may embody a commemoration for the victims and spiritual providers for Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, Greek and Russian Orthodox communities on Sunday.

Clouds hang over the crematorium at the former Dachau concentration camp, where more than 40,000 people were murdered or died of illness and hunger, and more than 200,000 were imprisoned by the Nazis.

Clouds hold over the crematorium on the former Dachau focus camp, the place greater than 40,000 folks have been murdered or died of sickness and starvation, and greater than 200,000 have been imprisoned by the Nazis.

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Survivors and relatives attend a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025

Established on the grounds of an previous gunpowder and ammunition manufacturing facility in March 1933, Dachau was the longest working focus camp within the Holocaust. It was one in all hundreds of camps and different websites the Nazis used within the mass homicide of greater than 6 million Jews.

Don Greenbaum, a U.S. soldier interviewed by Germany’s Der Spiegel journal in 2020, stated he couldn’t be ready for the camp when a French minister confirmed him round.

A memorial stone pictured at the former Dachau concentration camp, where tens of thousands of people were murdered and more than 200,000 were imprisoned by the Nazis from 1933 to 1945, in Dachau, Germany.

A memorial stone pictured on the former Dachau focus camp, the place tens of hundreds of individuals have been murdered and greater than 200,000 have been imprisoned by the Nazis from 1933 to 1945, in Dachau, Germany.

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