On April 11, 1945, General Patton’s Third Army liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, where some 280,000 inmates had passed days and some 56,545 died in captivity or were murdered. U.S. Army reports that fateful week indicate that 20,000 prisoners were still somehow alive in this place. One of those was my father-in-law, 22-year-old Capt. Bill McKenzie, a fightin’ Texas Aggie combat engineer attached to the 76th Infantry Division. Captain McKenzie said of the day, “I will not describe the horr
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70 YEARS LATER: On this day 70 years ago, the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated. Buchenwald survivor Henry Oster recalls thinking that a fellow inmate had "lost his sense of reality" when he said 70 years ago Saturday that the concentration camp was being liberated, bringing an end to the long ordeal of the 21,000 surviving prisoners. Oster, 86, visited the site for the first time since its liberation by U.S. forces on April 11, 1945 — one of a group of survivors and veterans who came
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April 11, 1945 – Liberation of Buchenwald When American troops entered Buchenwald concentration camp, prisoners had already organized internal resistance. Some guards had fled. Survivors emerged from barracks slowly, many skeletal and ill. Among them was a young boy who had survived hidden by fellow prisoners. He later described the first meal after liberation—small, carefully measured portions to avoid shock to his body. Freedom required patience. Buchenwald’s liberation revealed both the depth
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