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  • Vengeance at Dachau
  • Transcript of US Army investigation

    • VIDEO CLIPS
  • Excerpts from 'The Liberation of KZ Dachau,'
    a documentary by
    James Kent Strong

    • RELATED LINKS
  • Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial site
  • Dachau gas chambers
  • Dachau reconstruction project home page
  • History and virtual tour of Dachau
  • Dachau today photo essay
  • Holocaust Survivors Site
  • Holocaust History Project
  • The US Holocaust Memorial Museum

    • THE SERIES TO DATE
    PART I: THE
    PERFECT SPY
    German bureaucrat Fritz Kolbe smuggled out information so good the Allies didn't trust it

    PART II: INSIDE
    THE EMPIRE
    How Americans behind Japanese lines helped change the fate of WWII

    PART III: CALLING JAPAN TO ACCOUNT
    Nation asked to detail, and pay for, its WWII crimes

    PART IV: THE HOLOCAUST
    Early Nazi documents warned of genocidal intentions

    PART V: VENGEANCE
    AT DACHAU
    US soldiers shocked by Holocaust executed captured Nazi troops after liberating death camp

    PART VI: THE RESISTANCE
    Declassified documents demystify World War II underground

    PART VII: CLOAKED BUSINESS
    How Allied companies covered their deals with Axis

    PART VIII: THE WAR OF WORDS
    While troops and arms do their part, propaganda also proves central to military doctrine

    PART IX: HOT CONFLICT TO COLD WAR
    US made moral compromises in using former Nazi spy network against Soviet threat

    This series is based on some of the more than 3 million files the CIA is declassifying as part of a global effort to unlock the last stash of secrets about World War II war crimes.

    Vengeance at Dachau
    Transcript of millitary investigation

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    HEADQUARTERS SEVENTH ARMY

    OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF

    APO TSS, C/O POSTMASTER

    NEW YORK, NY

     

    2 May 1945

    MEMORANDUM

    TO: Inspector General, Seventh Army

    The Coming General directs that you conduct a formal investigation of alleged mistreatment of German guards at the Concentration Camp at Dachau, Germany, by elements of the XV Corps.

     

     

    A. WHITE
    Major General, G.S.C.
    Chief of Staff

     
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