80 Years After Dachau Concentration Camp Liberation, Witnesses Remember

With a central commemoration, the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Dachau was commemorated 80 years ago.

80 years after the liberation of the concentration camp Dachau: A former US soldier and a survivor laugh together, remember and remind: "People have not really learned from history".

Young people from the districts of Dachau and Oświęcim/Auschwitz will discuss National Socialism and memory culture in the photo seminar. The exhibition will open in Dachau on 9 May.

Eighty years ago, American soldiers liberated the prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp. Some survivors still accompany the Shoah every night - today more than ever.

The German authorities, Holocaust survivors and an American war veteran commemorated this Sunday the 80th anniversary of the liberation...

80 Years After Dachau Concentration Camp Liberation, Witnesses Remember

Lockered Gahs, known unofficially as Bud, was a 20-year-old soldier in the U.S. Army who had been fighting for a year when he and his unit first entered the Dachau concentration camp just outside Munich in 1945. His unit — the 42nd Infantry Division — had seen harrowing combat since it began fighting in France. But, he said, liberating the concentration camp was altogether different. “When we opened the gates to Dachau, it was only then have we …