When the US Army entered Dachau, there was a spontaneous act of retribution in which about 30 SS guards were killed by US forces. Here a US soldier looks at a few of the dead SS men. Although it was a forced labour camp and there were no gas chambers there, brutality and violent punishments were the norm. There were 32000 documented deaths there and many thousands more undocumented. The main camp (Dachau had 100 sub-camps) was liberated by the US Army on 29th April 1945.

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