These three Polish Jews escaped from Kaufering IV before the SS retreated from the advancing Third Army. They hid in the cellar of a nearby home during an American air attack on the area, and remained their until the arrival of the Third Army troops.
January 27, 2011, 9:31pm / 18
Approximately 500 German civilians and a group of Third Army soldiers attend a burial services for the victims of the Dachau subcamp, Kaufering IV. The German pastor conducting the services said local residents were “unaware of the atrocity being committed” by the SS.
January 27, 2011, 8:30pm / 19
Colonel Edward Seiller of the US Army forces the civilians of Landsberg, Germany to look upon the victims of the neighboring slave labor camp, Kaufering IV.
January 27, 2011, 7:00pm / 92
More than 4,000 slave laborers were burnt alive in their living quarters or were shot as they attempted to escape from the flames in Schwabmunchen, southwest of Munich, another Nazi horror camp uncovered by troops of the Seventh U.S. Army. The camp was discovered as the 12th Armored Division forged its way toward the Austrian border.
As spearheads threatened the camp, the German guards found they could not get the prisoners away before the arrival of the advancing Americans. Rather than allow the internees to be liberated, the guards set fire to the crude huts in which the prisoners slept, burning them to death or shooting any who tried to escape.
January 27, 2011, 6:00pm / 32
It is true–all the horror stories that the Nazis have perpetrated. From what I have seen they are capable of any inhumanity describable. There are none which they would not or could not execute. In all the world’s history this black mark is most horrible. We are supposed to live in a civilized world. But I have seen the barbarism and cannibalism of a so called civilized nation. Their scientific achievements are dwarfed by their utter lack of _______ . I am lost for words.
— Albert Gaynes in a letter to his wife on Kaufering 4
January 26, 2011, 9:42pm / 13
