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RIGHT
ORANGE CIRCLE: Leitenberg; LEFT ORANGE CIRCLE Dachau
concentration camp
As U.S. troops
approached, the SS evacuated inmates from the Dachau
SS subcamp satellite system to Dachau along with
inmates from Buchenwald.
Prior to arrival of U.S. troops, the
administration of the Dachau had collapsed.
Transport of the bodies to mass graves at Leitenberg had ceased.
When U.S. troops
liberated Dachau on April 29, 1945 they found
hundred or thousands of bodies of the Dachau main
and subcamp inmates along 4800 bodies of the
Buchenwald inmates in boxcars who had all perished
during their transport.
To prevent the outbreak of
disease U.S.
Army Engineer units began burying
the dead victims
of the Nazis. The U.S. Army continued to use that
site for
mass graves of victims of Dachau.
2829th
Combat Engineer Battalion, 40th Combat
Engineer Combat Group
Left: Helmet
stencil of the 2929th Combat Engineer
Battalion;
From May 9 to 13, the 2829th Combat Engineer Battalion, 40th Combat
Engineer Combat
Group was stationed at Munich, twenty miles from the
Dachau concentration camp, and served in the burying
of the dead.
Concentration Camp Memorial Cemetery Leitenberg | |
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