muncio schreef:
Ik begreep dat kort na de bevrijding van Dachau er nog veel doden vielen, doordat deze zich aan het hek vastklampten dat nog onder stroom stond.
Of het ging om veel doden vraag ik me af, maar het klopt dat er op die manier in elk geval enkele doden vielen.
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1st. Lt. William Cowling schreef:
Then a terrible thing happened. Some of them in their frenzy charged the barbed wire fence to get out and embrace us and touch us. Immediately they were killed by an electric charge running through the fence. I personally saw three die that way.
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1st. Lt. William Cowling schreef:
By this time, the square was completely filled with thousands of yelling, screaming people. They were all crowded up to the edge of a ditch just inside the barbed wire fence enclosing the encampment. General Linden arrived at the gate just as several of the people threw themselves across the ditch and onto the barbed wire. The wire was charged with electricity and those on the wire died instantly. Lt. Cowling personally saw three of them die this way.
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