From the April 2022 World War II magazine "Stopped Dead on the Tracks" mail.
Christopher Hoffmann of Colorado Springs, Co. wrote that his uncle was a member of the 41st Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron of the 11th Armored Division when they opened the gates and liberated the Mauthausen slave labor camp in western Austria they had no idea what they were walking into.
He remembered that during the cleanup of the corpses, as SS officer-turned-prisoner had refused to work, declaring to a British sergeant that officers could not be forced to work under the Geneva Conventions. The sergeant pulled out his pistol and told him to shut up and get back to his job.
The SS office continued to refuse, at which point the sergeant shot him dead between the eyes My wide-eyed uncle recalled that all SS members were highly motivated for the remainder of the day.
Work Will Liberate You. --GreGen
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