European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 the chill of death still clings to Dachau by Cheri Tellez staff writer Germany liberation came on a sunny Day april yet the Clammy feel of death still clings to the concentration Camp forty years soldiers found a railway siding and a train packed with emaciated inside the More bodies littered the although inmates were freed that at least had according to Dachau thou Sands More died without the International committee for Dachau was to hold a memorial service at 9 sunday at the site near the Entrance is now on the opposite Side of the Camp from the guard connected by twisted strands of barbed wire Hung on Concrete stand As silent few speak above a whisper in the Camp huge posters document the systematic legalization of antisemitism through the attempt to reach the final solution extermination of All a movie traces Dachau from its establishment in 1933 to in the courtyard is the International dominated Bya sculpture of wracked figures entangled in barbed a death mask screams silently while out stretched fingers reach toward the a nearby plaque carries the message never just beyond the memorial stand two reconstructed Camp records show that the de signed to hold about 200 inmates actually housed up to the other Barracks Are represented now by Concrete foundations filled with Small lined up like burial its a Short walk across the Bridge Over a Small Brook and into a stand of from this Side of the Camp the nazis marched their victims from the rail cars through the Iron Gate emblazoned with Arbeit Macht Frei work makes one just to the left of the hidden in the lies the from which once spewed acrid Black its four furnaces were capable of incinerating 150 bodies a photos by Dave Didio Symbol of holocaust forty years after its liberation by american soldiers in Dachau concentration Camp is preserved As a holocaust above Are ovens in which victims were at children play in what was once the Camps main below a crypt containing ashes of unknown prisoners stands by a memorial Wall with the inscription never again in four below Grafitti scar a table in one of the reconstructed Barracks which were planned to hold about 200 people each but actually housed up to
