Posted on Apr 4, 2016

Ohrdruf, also called Ohrdruf-Nord, a sub-camp of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp

SGT John " Mac " McConnell

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On April 4, 1945, American soldiers of the 4th Armored Division of General Patton's US Third Army were moving through the area south of the city of Gotha in search of a secret Nazi communications center when they unexpectedly came across the ghastly scene of the abandoned Ohrdruf forced labor camp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohrdruf_concentration_camp

Ohrdruf, also called Ohrdruf-Nord, a sub-camp of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp

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LTC Stephen F.

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This brings back chilling memories of both my time spent in Germany as a soldier and conversations with a liberated concentration camp victim who was cared for by my mother's family after the war SGT John " Mac " McConnell
ISIS would love to be able to recreate the concentration camps; but, because of global satellite coverage and other capabilities they could not recreate what the Nazis created in "secret" that was so ghastly that most could not imagine anybody would be so depraved to build and operate these camps.
SPC Corbin Sayi SrA Christopher Wright SP5 Mark Kuzinski COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SGT Forrest Stewart SGT (Join to see)

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