“What Patton Said When Asked to Court-Martial the Soldiers Who Killed SS Guards”
On April 29, 1945, American soldiers entered the gates of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. What they found stopped them cold. Piles of bodies. Thousands of skeletal prisoners barely alive. Gas chambers still warm from use. The smell of death everywhere. In one corner stood about 50 SS guards, hands raised in surrender. The … Read more