had probably been a violation of international law, "in the light of the conditions which greeted the eyes of the first combat troops, it is not believed that justice or equity demand that the difficult and perhaps impossible task of fixing individual responsibility now be undertaken". See also List of massacres in Germany Allied war crimes during World War II Notes References Further reading Complete transcript of the US Army investigation Boston.com | Boston Globe Online | Nation | The Secret History of World War II Goodell, Stephen, Kevin A Mahoney; Sybil Milton (1995). "1945: The Year of Liberation". Washington, D.C., U.S.: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Marcuse, Harold (2001). "Legacies of Dachau : The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933–2001". Cambridge University Press. Zarusky, Jürgen, "'That is not the American Way of Fighting:' The Shooting of Captured SS-Men During the Liberation of Dachau," in: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (eds.): Dachau and the Nazi Terror 1933–1945, vol. 2, Studies and Reports (Dachau 2002), pp. 133–160. (German original in Dachauer Hefte vol. 13, 1997). 1945 in Germany Dachau concentration camp Extrajudicial killings in World War II Massacres in 1945 Massacres in Germany Military history of the United States during World War II Murder in Bavaria World War II prisoner of war massacres by the United States