Liberation of Nazi Camps: Charles Torluccio

During the invasion of German-held Austria, the U.S. 11th Armored ("Thunderbolt") Division overran two of the largest Nazi concentration camps in the country: Mauthausen and Gusen. On May 5, 1945, the 11th arrived in Gusen, which had originally been a subcamp of Mauthausen. The division's arrival prevented the SS guards from murdering thousands of concentration camp prisoners by dynamiting the underground tunnels and factories where the inmates had been forced to work. The very next day, the unit liberated Mauthausen.

In this interview, Charles Torluccio, a veteran of the 11th Armored Division, speaks with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum about his experiences during liberation.

To learn more about the 11th Armored Division or about the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum visit http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006142.

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[priscillamartin100]

@scmthrasher this man is a witness to the barbarism of the Germans and to the satanic nazis.

God bless him and fuck the Holocaust deniers.

[caligula212]

@bewaver What pisses me off is that this is site for Remembrance of the Holocaust Then you come and mention the fucking Palestinians this is not the place .Plus there is is ZERO comparison bewteen the two! This is the mind fuck game played by Anti-Semites Arabs and Hypocritical Do Gooders and Idiots who like to say things like Jews should know better they went through the Holocaust 6million Jews gassed ,tortured ,removed from theri homes shot.Theere is NOOO COMPARISON and THIS isnt the place!!

[starhorst]

i'm german and i really appreciate everyone who is able to handle this and talk about this without being offensive. there is no excuse for what has happened and there never will be. comparing it to something else won't solve anything and will cause nothing but trouble. even if the victims are similar (and that's bad enough) there can be no comparison. thanks to all with an objective attitude.

[shitonMOHAMMAD]

@caligula212

hey MORON, are you aware that Arabs, Assyrians and Ahmaric people are all Semites? Anti-Semite Arabs? Most jews aren't even semites you uneducated submoron

[miguelmouta]

@priscillamartin100 God bless the lucidity o this man. HE IS DOING A VERY IMPORTANT WORK IN THESE FANATICS  PLENTY DAYS .

[Cobe1976]

@caligula212 Good for you. I'm so sick of these bastards. Anti-Zionism is the new anti-semitism

[MyPasswordIsUserName]

@caligula212 well said

I hate these palestinian fuckers

[bewaver]

@caligula212 Mate it's worst than that : from where I stand the Sun revolves around the Earth and the universe is bigger that old. Can you explain that, how did light got so far faster than herself? Can you explain that?