Anthony Acevedo, US Army medic who endured prison-camp horrors during WWII, dies at 93

"I kept saying, 'I don't know nothing,' " he later recalled. "They slapped my face and put needles under my fingernails." Acevedo revealed that his treatment was worse than he had ever admitted: In the labor camp, his German captors subjected him to a savage gang rape.

The prisoners received occasional packages of food from the Red Cross, but they subsisted largely on bread made from sawdust, ground glass and barley. They sometimes thickened their soup with the flesh of rats or stray cats they managed to capture. At night, they had to sleep two to a bunk, naked and without blankets.