The YouTube video below (scroll down) shows soldiers in the 45th Infantry Division of the US Army, who were the first liberators to arrive at the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945. The first man to speak is Lt. Col. Felix L. Sparks; then Lt. William P. Walsh speaks during the video at 1:43 minutes to 2:41 minutes. At 3:49 in the video, the photo below is shown, but the photo is not identified.
At 8:44 minutes in the video, Lt. Walsh describes a handsome German guy, who comes out “covered with Red Cross shields and white flags.” Lt. Walsh laughs, as he says that this German guy “looks like Howdy Doody” with all of his Red Cross shields.
At 9:32 in the video, Lt. Walsh says that the German soldier “jumped up into a box car” on the train parked outside the Dachau camp. He doesn’t say why this German soldier jumps into the box car, nor does he say that he personally shot this man, who had surrendered while carrying a white flag.
What was the name of this German soldier, who surrendered to Lt. Walsh, carrying a white flag of surrender? I previously blogged here about a German soldier who was killed after he surrendered.
At 14:00 in the video, Lt. Walsh begins to speak about the Germans who “died in defense of Dachau.” He uses this phrase three or four times. To Lt. William Walsh, when an enemy soldier surrenders, carrying a white flag, he is volunteering to “die in defense” of the military garrison where he is stationed.
The embedding of the YouTube video has been disabled but you can still watch the video on YouTube. Apparently, someone has objected to my showing of this video on my blog.
I previously blogged about the “Dachau Massacre” at https://furtherglory.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/dachau-liberation-reprisals-another-term-for-the-dachau-massacre/
“brick path” leads to the Dachau concentration camp from the SS garrison in the background
At 7:16 minutes on the YouTube video, an American veteran says that he “walked down a brick path” [after leaving the SS garrison] and he saw a “big, red brick building” at Dachau [which was outside the concentration camp].
At 7:45 minutes, he says that he saw “big vents in the ceiling and gas jets on the wall.” As he says this, we see a photo of the gas chamber as it looks now, not the way it looked when the American soldiers first saw it. At this point, the veteran says “Christ, I’m in the gas chamber.” However, he says that he “didn’t know until he had been in there five minutes.”
“red brick building” which 45th Division soldiers saw at Dachau was the gas chamber building
“gas jets” on the wall of the Dachau gas chamber
Close-up of “gas vent” on the wall of the Dachau gas chamber
The two photos above show what an American soldier in the 45th Infantry Division of the US Army allegedly saw at Dachau on the day that the camp was liberated. This is very important testimony, as it proves that the gas chamber, as seen today, was exactly like this on April 29, 1945 and it was not remodeled by the Americans.
So why would anyone request that the embedding of the video be disabled? This video, with the photos of the gas chamber, proves that the American soldiers did the right thing when they killed German POWs with their hands in the air after they had surrendered the camp.
Near the end of the video, at 13.26 minutes, Lt. William Walsh speaks again. Regarding the Dachau massacre, when German soldiers were killed with their hands in the air, he says “maybe it wasn’t a legitimate fight.” He probably means that a “legitimate fight” is when enemy soldiers are killed on the battlefield, not shooting POWs, who have surrendered and have their hands in the air.
On the video, Lt. Walsh literally cannot say one God damned sentence without cursing. At the very end, he says “everyone who died in defense of Dachau knew why [they were killed]”. However, he does say, at one point, “When I go to hell, with the rest of the SS….” To his credit, Lt. Walsh did imply that he was a war criminal, no better than the SS soldiers, and he admitted that he was going to Hell “with the rest of the SS…”
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