Dachau—Liberation and Retribution : Histories of the Holocaust

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The inhuman brutality and bloodshed that was endemic at Dachau—Nazi Germany's first concentration camp—did not come to an end with its 1945 liberation, for this dreadful place proved capable of tri...

The inhuman brutality and bloodshed that was endemic at Dachau—Nazi Germany's first concentration camp—did not come to an end with its 1945 liberation, for this dreadful place proved capable of triggering a spate of vengeful retaliation not only by its half-crazed prisoners, but their rescuers as well. Chapels of various faiths, memorials, and sculptures now mark the camp's sites of execution and torture.

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