European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page in the stars and stripes 1985 Day of liberation lives on for survivor by de Reavis staff writer Germany Adolf remembers Many of the Days he spent As a political prisoner in the Dachau concentration but one Day is etched indelibly the Day the americans Maislinger was arrested because of his membership in the German communist he had been raised As a social but Maislinger came to believe that the need to Battle the nazis in the streets was just As important As battling them at the the social democrats didst feel that so i joined the German communist which i went underground for a he eventually was arrested and sent to jail for organized resistance to the Hitler Maislinger said he was Lucky he was sent to prison first instead of a concentration in no and was frightened to death by the Prospect of the thank i did not have a wife and child or anybody to worry Maislinger but in october Maislinger was transferred to where the important Factor was to find out if a fellow inmate was an anti fascist or others  be the nazis treated Maislinger brutally in attempts to get but he said he was Able to keep from disclosing i was Lucky because when i arrived at Dachau in the order had been passed Down by the state economic ministry that they needed Strong the commander at the time followed the order and kept the murderers from being totally we worked in various such As As cheap he Maislinger said the last week before the the is stopped holding Roll Call although work groups were still leaving the but in the the situation was growing worse because of the Lack of Medicine to Check the spreading infectious he the Day before he the prisoners heard on their illegal radios an Appeal to German workers to Stop working for the nazis and for German soldiers to concentration the liberation photo by de reals Adolf a political prisoner at desert and join the approaching but the Appeal was several hours and hundreds of people were killed by the police for evening came and we were in a total state of can imagine the Strain when the news came that the is had decided that no prisoner would leave the Camp Maislinger As one of the leaders among the Maislinger had charge of 150 among them Many soviet but also French and they but the Day passed without in the morning we saw the is had disappeared except for one a we looked at the we knew them All after All those but there were a Bunch of new he those new faces were is prisoners former is men who had been imprisoned and now were Given the Chance to make Good by proving they were training their machine guns on the other who thought they Start shooting any the atmosphere was almost unbearable with expectancy of sudden Maislinger Maislinger said the illegal leaders in the Camp quickly held a meeting and decided that when the guards started shooting they have no other Choice but to attack them with everything they had which amounted to not much More than their Bare the Camp was built for men but held More than at the at never forget the time met with the top russian an and told him the plan and he he want but i certainly i had never been a Maislinger we were talking about 12 or 13 minutes when there was an explosion behind us and a lot of someone come i ran toward the noise and saw the americans had arrived through the the inmates were shouting and jumping and i saw some Tough old inmates men who were used to being whipped and tortured and yet never betrayed a name or men who had been in been through hell i saw them Maislinger i ran to Barracks where the jews were opened the window and heard them praying and we All to be free to be allowed to it was an unbelievable 40 years after the Maislinger is a living link to the past for those who visit the he conducts Tours in Maislinger he had the pleasure of shaking the hand of the american commander of the 157th inf 45th inf one of the Camp that was Felix of a we were quite a picture together me the he saved our and glad to thank him again for idyllic landscape scarred by history by de Reavis staff writer France not much of the original go Given Harmony is left in this once gentle it has been indelibly marred by the manmade scar of the death Camp site perched on the windswept Peak overlooking the about 30 Miles Southwest of Strasbourg in the Vosges the estate of Struthoff sits above the idyllic Village of formerly a favorite place of Retreat and skiing for the Claude Huard is a survivor of Struthoff Gatzwiller and before he became an american Huard was part of that secret army known As the French or after visiting Struthoff As free Huard recalled the months of misery spent there and the liberation of the Camp 40 years ago by the americans of the Allied 6th army you looking Back after All these its a wonder we survived the harsh Winter weather Here without proper clothes not to mention the indescribable brutality of the standing at a Vantage Point that gave him a View of the entire Camp and the Distant Village nestled in the Huard swept his Arm Over the entire you  see any of this when my transport arrived he and they below  see it was truly a night and fog he repeated the name of the nazi operation of rounding up French political prisoners nacht und night and the nazis decided to put All the French Freedom fighters in Struthoff and work them to Huard the nazis simply shot we had the letters in on our had i been caught earlier in the i would have been put to death on the he Huard was moved to where he spent the rest of the War until freed by soviet there his Teeth were knocked out with a bludgeon and he was forced to watch a fellow inmate stomped to when lie talks about Struthoff or he cant avoid repeating i dont know what makes men like that they were not men they were the Camp was built to House but their numbers swelled to up to nobody knows exactly Bow Many prisoners went through the Camp because the records of the gypsies and jews were not there were also 18 Branch Camps that held More than people in the Mosel and Neckar valleys and even in the town of just outside what is now Rhei main there also were no precise figures on the death rate at the but an example illustrates How High it was in july of 167 frenchmen brought to the Only three survived until the crematorium was finished in october the dead were incinerated in a Mobile crematorium near the Struthoff farm a Gas chamber used for experiments was near the by the summer of it was used the experiments were carried out on jews brought in from gypsies from Berlin and polish prisoners from other the Camp site is now a it is open to the Public from 9 to noon and from 2 to 4 through april and from 8 to noon and from 2 to 7 from May 1 to Cost of admission is 8 francs about 90 cents per or 5 francs about 55 cents for groups of 10 or