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Nazi concentration camp Ebensee liberated 70 years ago today (May 6 1945)

(Sunday, May 6, 1945) — The Ebensee concentration camp, established to build tunnels for armaments storage near the town of Ebensee, Austria, as part of the Mauthausen network, was liberated today by American forces.

Approximately 20,000 inmates were worked to death constructing giant tunnels in the surrounding mountains. Together with the Mauthausen subcamp of Gusen, Ebensee is considered one of the most horrific Nazi concentration camps.

Two horrific videos:

http://retronewser.com/2015/05/nazi-concentration-camp-ebensee-liberated-70-years-ago-today-may-6-1945/

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Ike had to loan him a U.S. Corps, but Monty finally beat the Russians to Lubeck and kept them out of Denmark.

I saw yesterday that LTC Creighton Abrams got his long awaited and well-deserved promotion to Colonel.

And Hanson Baldwin addresses the question hanging over every ETO G.I.'s mind - and his family's - transfer to the Pacific.