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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Revealed: American doctor's first-hand account of how he saw Dachau's SS guards being tortured and shot dead by GIs in 'cold blood' because they 'so had it coming'

  • Newly-discovered letters from Army doctor Captain David Wilsey offer dramatic first-hand account of horrors after liberation of Nazi death camp
  • Capt Wilsey told his wife that soldiers had shot SS 'beasts' against a wall and said: 'I saw it done without a single emotion'
  • He helped GIs who tortured the SS guards before their death and described how combat engineer avenged a brother's death by shooting three Nazis
  • Doctor was credited with saving thousands of lives in combat and never spoke of horrors he saw in wartime experience 
  • Daughter, of Eugene, Oregon, found letters, published in the New Republic, after his death
  • WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT 

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