My grandfather liberated a camp... He only told a few stories, and they were truly soul-crushing to hear.. I'm not sure I'm capable of going down this trail with you. I just thought maybe there was something I was missing :(
We didn't liberate any camps associated with the Holocaust. Those were all liberated by the Russians.
The truly soul crushing part about the state of the camps that we liberated is that we were in part responsible. We were attacking the supply lines, it's no wonder we found starving people.
The worst part is we were setting up our own camps. I'm sure if the Japanese liberated them they would have found similar circumstances.
Allied soldiers were propaganda victims. They came to the camps with one thing in their heads: Germans are evil. They found the piled bodies of disease and hunger supply line victims. The programming is in effect up until this day.
My grandfather liberated a camp... He only told a few stories, and they were truly soul-crushing to hear.. I'm not sure I'm capable of going down this trail with you. I just thought maybe there was something I was missing :(
We didn't liberate any camps associated with the Holocaust. Those were all liberated by the Russians.
The truly soul crushing part about the state of the camps that we liberated is that we were in part responsible. We were attacking the supply lines, it's no wonder we found starving people.
The worst part is we were setting up our own camps. I'm sure if the Japanese liberated them they would have found similar circumstances.
Sorry, I'm going to believe Papa on this one, internet fren ;) He was at Dachau, and told us what he saw first hand.
Not arguing against him at all.
Dachau was a concentration camp. It wasn't a death camp. I'm sure it was horrible. War is vile. But the Holocaust took place to the east of Dachau.
Allied soldiers were propaganda victims. They came to the camps with one thing in their heads: Germans are evil. They found the piled bodies of disease and hunger supply line victims. The programming is in effect up until this day.