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Reinhard Tixel has heard (Monday, January 5, 2004) conflicting versions of who really killed the prisoners found in the box cars at Dachau in April 1945

Who really killed those corpses found at Dachau?

I HAVE read several accounts on the execution of German guards of Dachau by the American army. One feature of the story, or the main feature, was that the G.I.s were so aghast at the corpses found in some freight cars parked at Dachau that they felt justified in the murders.

The accounts differ in the number of cars varying, if I remember correctly, from four to over twenty.

What always puzzled me was why the Germans would place the bodies in the train when they had a crematorium in the camp. It is more likely that they were routed there for cremation and/or burial from elsewhere. It was never been established on how these Jewish prisoners perished as far as I know. I had at least one theory.

In 1967, I visited my cousin, an expellee from Sudetenland, who married a farmer residing just outside of Landsberg.

We talked about the War. My cousin remarked that about eight hundred (I think that was the number she mentioned) Jews being killed in a train parked in Landsberg. Her husband emphasized that it was not the Germans who killed the Jews but that Allied planes that strafed the locked box cars.

For years I had wondered if the train at Dachau was the same train machine-gunned in nearby Landsberg. That was conjecture only.

However, I recently came across a photo on the Internet showing a corpse lying in one of the Dachau boxcars. I noticed that behind the corpse were marks on the lower part of the wall that appeared to be bullet holes. Perhaps my theory is correct

Reinhard Tixel

 

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