The Liberators Why We Fought

On 29 April 1945 USAmerican troops liberated the Dachau concentration camp near Munich Germany To mark the 70th anniversary of the event former prisoners and US soldiers speak about their experiences in the German HISTORY production Die Befreier The Liberators Why We Fought The original order issued to the units on the ground was to destroy an assumed ammunition and fuel storage site and then move on from there But what the US soldiers discovered was beyond any imagination a train full of corpses and a camp with 32000 prisoners inside all of them on the verge of death In the HISTORY documentary entitled Die Befreier The Liberators Why we fought US veterans and former inmates speak about the wartime experiences that changed and continue to shape their lives