80 years after the release of the Dachau concentration camp, they remember the witnesses
Larmata Gahs, known not officially as Bud, was a 20 -year soldier in the American army who had fought for a year when he and his unit entered the Dachau concentration camp just outside Monaco in 1945 for the first time.His unit - the 42nd infantry division - had seen a heartbreaking fight since he started fighting in France. But, he said, freeing the concentration camp was completely different."When we opened the doces to Dachau, only then did we really understand what we had fought for," said Gahs, 100 years old, to a crowd that included survivors, families and dignitaries in Dachau Sunday.When he and his unit crossed the doors, Mr. Gah met prisoners so malnourished, sick and mistreated that they seemed as soon as you live. Along the way, the soldiers had found piles of bodies inside the ...