I sent the first part of the story of Richard Brooks to you last week. Herewith is the rest of the story. The plethora of people in China reading these stories are anxious to see this “rest of the story”.
Ron
And here is the rest of the story:
In their blitz across Germany, Capt. Brooks told me of a German aviator that came down from his burning Messerschmitt one day near them.
He was captured and brought to Capt. Brooks. He could speak very good English. Since they were moving so fast, there was really no place to put him under proper custody. He was quite well behaved and stayed with Brooks for several days. My Uncle Dick Brooks told me that the German Aviator Officer was just adamant that they should not be fighting each other. He strongly contended that: “They should all be fighting the Russians, together”.
Richard Brooks was as appalled as the other soldiers by what he saw as they liberated the German concentration camps. He did not want to talk much about it, but I learned this much about Dachau. On April 25, 1945 the US Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry’s Division was tired, dirty, and pushing on to take the German town of Munich. Just ten miles from Munich is when they came upon Dachau.
The first thing they saw was 40 German freight cars lined up on the train rails leading into the camp. They looked in and were shocked and amazed to see that the cars were stacked full of human corpses. Later count showed that there were 3,219 stacked in those cars.
The 45th was in full battle mode and all hyped-up with the adrenalin of battle. They were immediately fired on by German SS troops in the towers of the concentration camp. They dispatched those and warily entered the camp, for they did not know how many SS troops may be lurking there to attack them, and they knew how dangerous and brutal the German SS was.
Then they saw the first of the 30,000 emaciated prisoners who were still there. 7,000 had been marched off in a “death march” the day before from Dachau to Tegernsee by the Germans in which most were either shot because they could not keep up or just died from the exertion and starvation in their emaciated state.
The troops of the 3rd Battalion saw the kilns where the corpses were still being burned. There were piles of corpses waiting to be burned. The stench of death just permeated the air. They were in full battle gear and still all hyped, not knowing who was there to shoot at them. And they were just overwhelmed and appalled at these sites.
The 3rd Battalion of the 45th started rounding up the German SS officers and guards. It was never reported in the media, but these US troops were so appalled and viscerally sickened that they lined up many of those SS guards and started executing them. They had encountered SS troops before and knew how brutal and fanatical they were. These men of the 45th said: “To Hell with the Geneva Convention rules.” And they started taking their own revenge in their righteous indignation.
You don’t believe it? Look at this shot:
Some of the prisoners had not been there too long. They were not yet totally emaciated. When they saw the US soldiers rounding-up the Waffen SS Officers and guards, they became emboldened and took after the other German guards and officers.
One of the prisoners, Walenty Lenarczyk, said that immediately following the liberation the prisoners gained a newfound sense of courage. They caught the SS men “and knocked them down and nobody could see whether they were stomped or what, but they were killed.” As Lenarczyk put it, “We were, all these years, animals to them and it was our birthday.”
There’s a reporting of two liberated prisoners beating a German guard to death with a shovel and another witnessed an account of a liberated prisoner stomping repeatedly on the face of a guard.
Two of the most notorious prison guards had been stripped naked by the prisoners before they were shot.
Jack Goldman was liberated at Dachau and became a U.S. Veteran of the Korean War. His father was killed in Auschwitz.
Goldman reflected on the Dachau liberation, the subsequent events that transpired, and the idea of vengeance. Though he doesn’t preach hatred, he understood the feelings of those prisoners.
“I knew men in camp who had sworn by everything that was holy to them that if they ever got out that they would kill every damn German in sight. They had to watch their wives mutilated. They had to watch their babies tossed in the air and shot.”
One vivid memory Goldman recalled from the liberation was the American troops taking their names. He said, “For the first time, we were no longer only numbers.”
After word of American soldiers killing SS Guards at Dachau spread, an investigation was ordered by Lt. Col. Joseph Whitaker. The “Investigation of Alleged Mistreatment of German Guards at Dachau” as it was called produced documents that were marked “secret.” Soldiers spoke under sworn testimony and in the aftermath were inclined to speak little more of whatever happened at the Dachau Concentration Camp after it was liberated.
Felix L. Sparks was a general who wrote a personal account of the events.
General Sparks wrote that, despite more exaggerated claims, “The total number of German guards killed at Dachau during that day most certainly did not exceed fifty, with thirty probably being a more accurate figure.”
I think Sparks was just trying to make things look better. Take a look at that last picture again.
The stories of US troops taking revenge in behalf of those prisoners and corpses was kept secret until 2001 when certain archives of WWII were finally released.
After the war Captain Brooks became Chief Engineer of American Airlines. He was first stationed in Dallas, and AA kept promising that they were going to move to Dallas, but he finally had to move to their headquarters in New York. They eventually did move to Dallas, but way too late for his purposes. He eventually resigned and moved back to Dallas to work for Braniff.
However, he knew something that he could never talk about. It deeply disturbed him all the rest of his life. One night it even caused him to take all his medals out into the backyard in New York and burn them.
I will just mention what it was without getting too deep into it. Others have completely confirmed it, and even written books about it.
General Patton was seriously considering coming back to the States and running for President. It was the opinion of those who knew, that he would have for sure been elected. Eisenhower was, and Patton was way more popular than Eisenhower at the time. Patton knew all about the Deep State, though it was not called such then. He did not owe anybody anything. He would have for sure cleaned it up. It was way worse then than it probably is now, even though it is still way bad now.
We had not even translated the Verona Tapes back then. (Look them up on Google/Wikipedia.) There were so very many Russian/Communist agents all through our government. Our Intelligence people recorded all the radio transmissions going out of the US back to Russia, but they were never translated until many years later. That was the Verona tapes. Senator Joseph McCarthy wanted to do something about that plethora of Communist agents. He held hearings on the subject, but our liberal media just excoriated him. They even make his name into a bad word that is still used today…….”McCarthyism”.
It has never been publicized by our Media, but when we finally translated all those tapes, it showed that not only was McCarthy correct, he had only scratched the surface.
The Deep State could not let Patton come back and clean that whole mess up. They could not let that happen. It is well documented now, that they had Patton assassinated. When he did not die from their staged “accident” at that railroad crossing, and was getting better, in collaboration with assistance from Russian Intelligence, they had him injected with the Russian drug that gives the appearance of a heart attack.
Brooks knew all that. I told you how he became so disgusted with the actions of “The Deep State” that he went out into his backyard and burned all of his WW II medals. But he had to just hold it all inside himself until the day he died. In those days you did not “mess” with the Deep State.
True Texan Tales 