{"id":54430,"date":"2026-04-29T00:05:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54430"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:37:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:37:48","slug":"54430","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54430","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

We should never forget.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dachau; I’ve been there<\/em>. At the end of the 1st Gulf War, the troops whose home station was somewhere in Europe got a week long free leave with a planned – and mandatory – itinerary. On the way to a day in Munich, enroute to Berchtesgaden, a morning was spent touring Dachau.<\/p>\n

Everyone walked around in silence, and when people did speak, it was always in near whispers.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know about today, but 35 years ago, you could walk right into the building where the gas chambers and crematory ovens are, and feel the hair rise up on the back of your neck as you looked into the black insides of those ovens that burned uncounted dead.<\/p>\n

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Murder. Mass murder. Concentrated, premeditated murder on a scale that makes the ‘mass shootings’ the mewling liberal proggies wail about in their rants for gun control, pale in comparison.<\/p>\n

And although you could walk right up to multiple little mass grave plots the size of a postage stamp front yard, marked Grave of Thousands Unknown<\/em><\/strong> this was ‘merely’ a concentration camp. Not one of the camps in Poland designed<\/em> for industrial level mass slaughter.<\/p>\n

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On April 29, 1945 the U.S. Army\u2019s 42nd Infantry Division (Rainbow<\/em>), now a part of the New York Army National Guard, uncovered the concentration camp in the town of Dachau, near Munich Germany. According to a press release<\/a>\u00a0by the New York National Guard, the frontline soldiers in the Army unit knew there was a prison camp in the area, but knew few details about the camp\u2019s true nature.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the Soldiers discovered next at Dachau left an impression of a lifetime,\u201d the division assistant chaplain (Maj.) Eli Bohnen wrote at the time, according to the release. \u201cNothing you can put in words would adequately describe what I saw there. The human mind refuses to believe what the eyes see. All the stories of Nazi horrors are underestimated rather than exaggerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. Army unit uncovered thousands of bodies of men, women and children held in the concentration camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were over 4,000 bodies, men, women and children in a warehouse in the crematorium,\u201d Lt. Col. Walter Fellenz, commander of the 1st Battalion, 222nd Infantry, said in his report. \u201cThere were over 1,000 dead bodies in the barracks within the enclosure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRiflemen, accustomed to witnessing death, had no stomach for rooms stacked almost ceiling high with tangled human bodies adjoining the cremation furnaces, looking like some maniac\u2019s woodpile,\u201d wrote Tech. Sgt. James Creasman, a division public affairs NCO in the 42nd Division World News, May 1, 1945.<\/p>\n

\u201cDachau is no longer a name of terror for hunted men. 32,000 of them have been freed by the 42nd Rainbow Division,\u201d Creasman wrote of the liberation.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Holocaust Museum places the estimated number of those freed from the camp at more than 60,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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