Dr. Russel R. Weiskircher oral history interview

This is an oral history interview with Holocaust concentration camp liberator Russel R. Weiskircher. Weiskircher was a sergeant in the 45th Infantry Division, which liberated Dachau on April 29, 1945. His battalion was en route to Munich when they received an order diverting them to Dachau, where they were to enter the camp and take it over. The first thing they encountered was a train with thousands of corpses of prisoners from Buchenwald. Weiskircher went through the camp, seeing the gas chamber and crematorium, and witnessed Colonel Felix Sparks\u27 confrontation with the 42nd Infantry Division\u27s General Henning Linden, as well as the incident where soldiers from the 45th killed several German guards. He was in the camp for two days, and came back several times while on occupation duty. Weiskircher began speaking publically about Dachau in 1946, as soon as he returned home, and is a member of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust