U.S. Army liberates Dachau concentration camp

2D Post today -- 29 April 1945

US Army liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp - Dachau, GE

On April 29, 1945, the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Germany’s Nazi regime. A major Dachau subcamp was liberated the same day by the 42nd Rainbow Division.