Dachau massacre inmates
Most of the prisoners in the sub-camps of Dachau were Jews who had survived Auschwitz and had been brought on trains to Germany after Auschwitz was abandoned by the Germans in January 1945. Historians have described the massacre of dozens of SS guards at the hands of American GIs as arguably the most shameful episode in American involvement in WWII. Wearing the striped uniform of the concentration camp, happy prisoners at Dachau cheer troops of the 45th Div, 7th US Army who liberated them on April 30, 1945.
Dachau, Buchenwald and Mauthausen camps were simplymurdered after the camps were taken by the Americans in the final weeks of thewar, I testified. German soldiers after their surrender as prisoners of war to American troops were summarily shot and killed by such troops.
Located in southern Germany, Dachau initially housed political prisoners; however, it even