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SS Camp Guards Massacred at Dachau by US Troops (1945)

The gates of Dachau swung open on April 29, 1945, and the horrors inside burned themselves into the souls of the American soldiers who entered. Starved prisoners, skeletal bodies stacked like firewood, the stink of death hanging in the air thicker than smoke — Dachau wasn’t just a camp. It was hell made real, according to veterans. The men of the 45th and 42nd Infantry Divisions, hardened by years of war, were shaken to their core. And then they saw them — the SS guards, hands raised, surrendering. Smirking, some said. Mocking. Then something snapped. In the chaos, the lines between justice and vengeance blurred. Dozens of SS men were gunned down where they stood. Some were forced against walls and shot. Others were herded into a coal yard, where a machine gun spat out furious judgment. Prisoners, newly freed, joined in, exacting their own brutal revenge with fists, boots, and whatever they could find. The massacre at Dachau wasn’t planned — it exploded from the raw wound of what those soldiers saw. It stands as one of the war’s most haunting moments, where the liberators, for a brief, terrible instant, became executioners themselves.