Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
January 2009
Abstract
Wendell Hall was a member of the 103rd Infantry Division, which liberated one of the Kaufering camps on April 27, 1945. He and his unit approached the camp on foot and entered some of the huts, but spent only a few minutes there before their officers led them away. After the war ended, Hall spent several weeks at Dachau on occupation duty; although much of it had been sanitized by the time he arrived, he still found the empty crematorium ovens disturbing. Hall has written many letters about the Holocaust to his local newspaper; the letters are archived on his website, along with his wartime memoirs.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Infantry Division 103rd, Kaufering (Germany), Dachau (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:40:59; 22 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Kaufering (Germany); Dachau (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00052
Recommended Citation
Hall, Wendell H., "Wendell Herbert Hall Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 42.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/42
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