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LIBERATION OF BUCHENWALD
CHAPTER 12 camp of Dachau has a railroad line leading to it and it was rumored that those shipped from Buchenwald were sent to Dachau in railroad cars. the ones shipped from Buchenwald prior to his arrival to liberate the camp. I researched dozens of articles on Buchenwald and found nothing about the ultimate confirmed destination of the Buchenwald train cars. However, I started researching dozens of articles on Dachau only because my grandfather visited there and had that tour map. Well, low and behold, this is a narrative that I found in one of the articles about Dachau - “Weeks earlier, Nazi commanders at Buchenwald, another notorious German concentration camp, packed at least 3,000 prisoners into 40 train cars in order to hide them from the approaching Allied armies. The train was supposed to arrive in Dachau a few days later, but the tortuous odyssey ended up lasting three weeks. All but a quarter of the train’s 3,000 passengers died from starvation, dehydration, asphyxiation, and disease. The survivors were herded into the concentration camp while thousands of fallen
According to my research, on the day of Dachau’s liberation April 29, 1945, which was just about almost three weeks after the liberation of Buchenwald, the scenes there were just as horrific as the ones found in Buchenwald, if not worse. According to some reports, the horrors that they found at Dachau immediately made the soldiers that liberated the camp start executing the remaining German SS guards that they captured. One of those horrific encounters was finding railroad cars filled with dead men, women, and children!
Yes, you may have guessed where I believe those railroad cars came from and who were in them. I believe they were the same railroad cars used to transport the survivors (at one point when they were still alive) out of Buchenwald right before the Allied Forces showed up to liberate Buchenwald! I believe that these were the thousands of missing people that nobody knew where they were shipped off to! Unfortunately, almost all of those poor souls perished in those railroad cars during transport or were intentionally left in them to die. They remained there in Dachau on those railroad tracks and in those railroad cars until they were found almost three weeks after the liberation of Buchenwald.
Part of my theory is that I believe my grandfather knew about the railroad cars and that he knew they were