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Real History and the camp at Dachau The What really went on at the Nazi concentration camp, Dachau, before (and after) April 1945? Photo: Gastight shower door at Dachau camp [from Irving collection] your Dachau index again your newsletter More on the Dachau Controversy A former G I, Mr B Csatary , posted this message on the Germany History Board on the Internet
on July 18, 1999: we invite comments from our visitors, who may find it interesting. We have contacted the author for confirmation . I WAS a U.S. soldier stationed in Dachau 1964–1965. The concentration camp was filled with Polish and other former inmates that decided to take advantage of free housing and jobs. The US Army maintained part of the camp as an Army prison for GI jailbirds. The camp had a small 10×15 crematory for occasional cremations.
There never was a large “Death Camp” machine on the grounds. The small crematory was no more unusual than the ones you see in many American cemeteries. To my dismay, a few months before being transferred