<P> The Dachau liberation reprisals were a series of incidents in which German prisoners of war were killed by American soldiers and concentration camp internees at the Dachau concentration camp on April 29 , 1945 , during World War II . It is unclear how many SS members were killed in the incident but most estimates place the number killed at around 35 - 50 . In the days before the camp 's liberation SS guards at the camp had murdered thousands of the camp 's internees and sent tens of thousands more on death marches in which thousands were murdered by their guards . When Allied soldiers liberated the camp , their reactions varied from being shocked , horrified , disturbed and angered by the masses of dead they found and the combativeness of some of the remaining German guards who had initially fired on them and had refused to surrender . </P>
<P> The Dachau liberation reprisals were a series of incidents in which German prisoners of war were killed by American soldiers and concentration camp internees at the Dachau concentration camp on April 29 , 1945 , during World War II . It is unclear how many SS members were killed in the incident but most estimates place the number killed at around 35 - 50 . In the days before the camp 's liberation SS guards at the camp had murdered thousands of the camp 's internees and sent tens of thousands more on death marches in which thousands were murdered by their guards . When Allied soldiers liberated the camp , their reactions varied from being shocked , horrified , disturbed and angered by the masses of dead they found and the combativeness of some of the remaining German guards who had initially fired on them and had refused to surrender . </P>
what happened to the inmates of dachau in 1945
what happened to the inmates of dachau in 1945
killed by American soldiers and concentration camp internees at the Dachau concentration camp on April 29 , 1945 , during World War II
killed by American soldiers and concentration camp internees at the Dachau concentration camp on April 29 , 1945 , during World War II