By Invitation | The Holocaust

The liberation of Dachau was not a moment of celebration, says Dan Stone

The historian on commemorating the shock and horror of concentration camps, 80 years on

Illustration: Dan Williams
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THE GREAT journalist Martha Gellhorn was in Dachau when the German army surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. “It was a suitable place to be,” she wrote. “For surely this war was made to abolish Dachau and all the other places like Dachau and everything that Dachau stands for. To abolish it forever. That these cemetery prisons existed is the crime and shame of the German people.”

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