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During the Dachau liberation reprisals, [Note 2] German SS troops were killed by U.S. soldiers and concentration camp prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945, during World War II. It is unclear how many SS guards were killed in the incident, but most estimates place the number killed at around 35–50.
Dachau is a 72-page investigation report by the 7th US Army on Dachau, one of the concentration camps established by Nazi Germany. The report details the mass murder and mass atrocities committed at Dachau by the SS and other personnel.
On 29 April 1945, Wicker surrendered the camp to General Henning Linden of the 42nd Infantry Division (United States) of the 7th US Army. [1] [2] [3] Weicker was never seen alive again after the war, and it is generally assumed that he was summarily executed by American soldiers during the Dachau liberation reprisals. [3]
Between January and April 1945 11,560 detainees died at KZ Dachau according to a U.S. Army report of 1945, [26] though the Dachau administration registered 12,596 deaths from typhus at the camp over the same period. [21] Dachau was the third concentration camp to be liberated by British or American Allied forces. [27]
Weiss was apprehended in Munich on 29 April 1945 by corporal Henry Senger of the US Army 292nd Field Artillery Observation Battalion, [11] [12] and was tried during the Dachau Trials beginning on 13 November 1945. After being found guilty of "violating the laws and usages of war," Weiss was executed by hanging at Landsberg prison on 29 May 1946 ...
The Dachau trials, also known as the Dachau Military Tribunal, handled the prosecution of almost every war criminal captured in the U.S. military zones in Allied-occupied Germany and in Allied-occupied Austria, and the prosecutions of military personnel and civilian persons who committed war crimes against the American military and American ...
Sid Shafner, 94, was recently honored at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony for his hand in liberating over 30,000 prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp in southern Germany in 1945, according ...
The Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials were a set of trials of SS concentration camp personnel following World War II, heard by an American military government court at Dachau. Between March 29 and May 13, 1946, and then from August 6 to August 21, 1947, a total of 69 former camp personnel were tried.