Dachau liberation reprisals
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During the Dachau liberation reprisals,[Note 2] German SS troops were killed by U.S. soldiers and concentration camp prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945, during World War II. It is unclear how many SS guards were killed in the incident, but most estimates place the number killed at around 35–50. In the days before the camp's liberation, SS guards at the camp had forced 7,000 inmates on a death march that resulted in the death of many from exposure and shooting.[1] When Allied soldiers liberated Dachau, they were variously shocked, horrified, disturbed, and angered at finding the massed corpses of prisoners, and by the combativeness of some of the remaining guards who allegedly fired on them.
Dachau liberation reprisals | |
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Part of World War II | |
Location | Dachau concentration camp |
Date | April 29, 1945 |
Target | SS personnel Kapos |
Attack type | Massacre Summary executions Vigilantism |
Deaths | ~35–50 |
Perpetrators | United States Army Former Dachau prisoners |
Motive | Rage Outrage Revenge |