American liberators of Nazi camps got ‘a lifelong vaccine against extremism’ − their wartime experiences are a warning for today
- Written by Sara J. Brenneis, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Spanish, Amherst College
A staged recreation of Mauthausen's liberation, May 6, 1945. Spanish prisoners documented the camp's actual liberation the day prior using Nazi cameras. National Archives and Records, Cpl. Donald R. Ornitz, US Signal Corps/Administration, III-SC-206395When American soldiers liberated the Mauthausen Nazi concentration camp in Austria 80 years ago...