dachau concentration camp

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.

As part of the 92nd Signal Battalion and Patton's famed Third Army, the author found himself at the forefront of the Allied push through France and Germany. He was among the first 250 American troops into the infamous Dachau Concentration Camp.