00:00Units of the US 7th Army's 45th Infantry Division enter Dachau, the first regular concentration
00:07camp established by the Nazis. The soldiers are immediately confronted with the smell of human
00:14excrement and decaying bodies. Many of them cry or vomit, as they find piles of severely
00:21malnourished corpses, more than 30 railroad cars filled with thousands of dead bodies,
00:27and nearly 30,000 survivors, most of them severely emaciated and barely able to stand.
00:34Thousands are suffering from typhus and starvation, and many will die in the weeks and months following
00:41liberation. One of Dachau's commandants responsible for the systematic torture, mistreatment,
00:48and deaths of prisoners held in the camp is Alexander Pyorkovsky.
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