Alexander kimel holocaust survivor

Liberation of Concentration Camps was a varied experience on the part of US and Russian troops at the end of WWII.

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Debate the Holocaust?
by Dan Johnson

I am a WW2 vet who was in the 102nd Infantry Division which spear- headed the 9th Army drive across Europe to the Elbe River where we met the Russians.

We liberated a number of the death and work camps as we went along.

The camps, most of which were small could be drawn on for “free” labor. Political prisoners were worked to death and it didn’t matter to the Germans, as there were plenty more where they came from.

Alexander kimel holocaust survivor

The whole idea was to get rid of the prisoners permanently and make a gain of free labor in the process. I saw Buchenwald first hand shortly after it was liberated.

The ten-man combat team which I was a part of was directly involved in a place called Gardelegan.

1016 Jewish prisoners were being burned alive there in a barn on the edge of town by the SS troops who