Dachau 29 April 1945

On April 29, 1945, the forward battalions of Rainbow Division, 42nd Infantry, were moving swiftly toward Munich. They had survived four months of costly and bitter combat. They were optimistic and confident as the war was coming to an end. Amost half of the soldiers were eighteen to twenty years old. And then their road led to the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp. To the horrors of war they added the horrors of Dachau. This book honors the memories of the American liberators whose lives were forever changed by what they saw on April 29, 1945. The editor of the book was a Rainbow soldier.