Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
June 2008
Abstract
James Dorris was a member of the 42nd Infantry Division, which liberated Dachau on April 29, 1945. The division arrived in France in December 1944 and was organized into Task Force Linden, participating in the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhineland Campaign, and the Central Europe Campaign. While on their way to Munich, they were redirected to Dachau, along with the 45th Infantry Division. In this interview, Dorris describes entering the camp, where he was placed on guard duty to keep the former prisoners from leaving; one of them gave Dorris a cigarette butt that he had been saving. They stayed in the camp that night, sleeping in one of the guards' houses, and left the next morning for Munich.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Battle of the Ardennes (1944-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Infantry Division 42nd, Dachau (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:43:16; 25 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Ardennes; Dachau (Germany); Munich (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00030
Recommended Citation
Dorris, James, "James Dorris Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 24.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/24
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