My father’s regiment oversaw administration of liberated concentration camps at the end of the war (he never discusses it). He also attended the Nuremberg trials.
Robert Clary (lebeau) died yesterday.. was in his 90’s. HH’s was one of my favorites growing up.
That was a horror. It would give me nightmares. Just seeing the camps liberation brings one to tears. Some died as they were being rescued in the arms of the rescuers. War is hell. But that would haunt someone to their grave.
My fathers best friend caught a German trooper taking a piss on a tree all by himself in France shortly after D Day. He never tired of telling the story of going “Hey you!” - just as the fellow looked over his shoulder, his face vanished in a cloud of red mist from a 30.06 round at relatively close range LOL - great story
I had an uncle in 3rd Army that liberated one of these camps. He barely spoke of his experiences but did say to me, don’t let the leftist or the white power nuts tell you it didn’t happen, I saw it with my own eyes what they did to the Jews, it was real and it was God awful!
He respected the Wehrmacht but absolutely hated the SS who he said you just kill the SOB’s immediately.