“Think of how we died here”: 75th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau
2020-04-29T10:50:36.713Z
On April 29, 1945, one of the first Hitler concentration camps, Dachau, was liberated from the Nazis. His prisoners were Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl, French physicist Georges Sharpak and pastor Martin Nimeller, who wrote the famous poem "When They Came ...". About 250 thousand people passed through the dungeons of the concentration camp. More than 70 thousand of them, including 12 thousand Soviet citizens, died as a result of executions, cruel medical experiments and deprivations. About 140 thousand prisoners were transferred from there to other camps, where many of them suffered the same fate. The surviving prisoners revolted on April 28, 1945. The next day, American troops entered the camp. At the site of the Dachau crematorium there is a memorial stone with the inscription "Think how we died here."
Source: russiart