HISTORIES OF THE HOLOCAUST
DACHAU - LIBERATION & RETRIBUTION

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The inhuman brutality and bloodshed that was endemic at Dachau, Nazi Germany’s first concentration camp, did not come to an end with its 1945 liberation, for this dread place proved capable of triggering a spate of vengeful retaliation and killings, not only by its half-crazed prisoners, but their rescuers.

Even though these actions were undoubted war-crimes, a rapidly developing political climate made it convenient that they should be overlooked and hidden on orders from above, as indeed later were those of certain Nazis considered useful to Western powers.

As a new and democratic Germany evolved it became considered Dachau would be better obliterated and forgotten, but international political opinion thought otherwise. Chapels of various faiths, memorials and sculptures now mark the camp’s sites of execution and torture, but nothing could ever truly recall the depravities that took place here. If Dachau remains for a thousand years, it should be as a warning of how thin is civilization's veneer.