Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
June 2008
Abstract
Irvin Schlocker was a sergeant in the 63rd Infantry Division, which liberated Landsberg and other sub-camps of Dachau in late April 1945. They found several prisoners in a Bavarian town; the officers and medics told them not to feed the people as it could kill them. Schlocker took some prisoners into a nearby house and got some clothes for them. Schlocker did get to the camp, where he saw more prisoners through the fence, but could not stop to go inside. He saw several inmates kill a guard by drowning him in a horse trough. In this interview, Schlocker also tells several other stories from his experiences during the war and on occupation duty.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Jewish veterans, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Infantry Division 63rd, Landsberg (Concentration camp), Dachau (Concentration camp)
Extent
01:13:27; 49 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Dachau (Germany); Landsberg am Lech (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00121
Recommended Citation
Schlocker, Irvin, "Irvin Schlocker Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 106.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/106
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