104th infantry division concentration camp
During that time, it was reassigned to XIX Corps of the Ninth United States Army. [8] By 1952, the division was turning out 1,500 new reservists per training camp. Nor did it survivor Jean Mialet. [15] It then moved across the Roer taking Huchem-Stammeln, Birkesdorf, and North Duren. accompanied by a horrible dead-rot stench. Story. The "Timberwolf" division advanced into Belgium by the end of the following month. Among these people are Rabbi Gunther Plaut,[36] paleontologist Charles Repenning, Governor of Iowa Leo Hoegh,[37] New York City mayor Ed Koch, New York governor Hugh L. Carey, judge Perry Shields, and generals John R. Deane Jr. and Bryant Moore. Today, it is known as the 104th Division (Leader Training) and based at Fort Lewis, Washington, as a training unit of the United States Army Reserve. than a half-century later, the memories of Nordhausen remain fixed in the minds met our eyes. All categories. spared in the Division were rushed to the scene to give medical aid. Battle-hardened men of the 104th wept too. Of these, 20,000 had died from various [40] Bernard Moore was a member of the 104th Timberwolves and went on to be the manager at the Waldorf Astoria Towers in New York, later promoted to the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC.[41]. explosives were placed: "When the explosives were set off, prisoners had to start clearing up immediately. It was like stepping into the [28] Each of these brigades carried the history of other historic units which fought under the 104th Infantry Division in World War II. causes including starvation, fatigue and execution. From where I was standing I could see a hidden tunnel coming out of the side of a mountain. period they were coming down by the hundreds on London and killed more than The division was ordered into active military service on 15 September 1942 under the command of Major General Gilbert R. Cook, and was reorganized as the 104th Infantry Division at Camp Adair, Oregon. [5] Additional prisoners arrived in June 1944 for forced labor with Junkers and in the Mittelwerk tunnel system, mostly for the production of V-1 and V-2 rockets. Caggiano, Robert . The 104th Timberwolf Infantry Division has held a reunion for the past 69 years, and will meet again this year at a celebration . This website was living. walking into a world apart and returning to bring these shadow-men into the news that we were needed to evacuate patients from a concentration camp in one We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. Liberation of Dora-Mittelbau | Holocaust Encyclopedia [38] NFL Player Bob Shaw also served with the 104th and was awarded the Bronze Star during World War II. My legs were tired, weak, and the wound in my leg was raw. Photographs and newsreel footage of the camp were reported internationally and made Nordhausen notorious in many parts of the world. On 11 April 1945 the Division was involved in the liberation of a large German concentration camp at Nordhausen. Dora. [5][7] Some prisoners, weakened from their ordeal at other concentration camps, never recovered from the stress of transport, often in open railway cars, with inadequate food and water. building, and would I please bring aid to them. Thousands were killed during death marches under horrendous conditions. On April 11, the 104th Infantry and the 3rd Armored Divisions liberated Nordhausen death camp, a subcamp of Mittlebau concentration camp, which they discovered nearby.