The Daily History Chronicle

On April 29, 1945, American soldiers liberated Dachau, the first concentration camp the Nazis ever built, and freed 32,000 survivors in one of the defining moments of the Second World War. But the full story of that day includes a suppressed military investigation into American war crimes, Japanese-American soldiers whose families were imprisoned in U.S. internment camps, and a category of prisoners who walked out of Nazi custody directly into Allied confinement. This is the liberation history taught us to celebrate, and the parts it left out.