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To: This_Dude

Nice! That’s a good pistol. My dad got his Luger when he disarmed a Chief of Police as the war was ending. I think it is a .40 caliber. He said they would lay hundreds of rifles on the curbs into the gutters and then run over them with his tank, the Germans had run away and left their weapons behind at that point. Soon after that they liberated the Death Camp at Ebensee, Australia. Read about that, horrifying. Dad never talked about it, and didn’t write about it in his memoir. Another tank commander told me only teenagers were alive. He gave one a piece of bread. The kid took a bite and dropped dead. They figured out they could only give them ice chips for hours, then water, then food.


28 posted on 12/13/2024 3:19:04 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: SaxxonWoods
Soon after that they liberated the Death Camp at Ebensee, Australia. Read about that, horrifying

Ebensee, a satellite camp of Mauthausen, was near the Alps and had beautiful scenery. However, although Mauthausen was one of the worst Nazi camps, Ebensee was worse, and inmates at Mauthausen dreaded being sent there.

30 posted on 12/13/2024 3:49:52 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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