Photo at Dachau
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Allen L. Cohen
Biographical History
Mr. Cohen served as an infantryman in Cannon Company of th 180 Regiment of the 45th Infantry Division. After the liberation of Dachau, his company was brought in to relieve the troops there, and after a day or two, they rejoined their division on the attack on Munich. They were then sent back to Dachau to guard the SS and prevent inmates from escaping. Some of the SS prisoners were the german soldiers that committed the atrocities against the Americans in Malmedy. Mr. Cohen may have been the first Jewish soldier to guard the SS. He was honorably discharged from the Army on December 25, 1945.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Allen L. Cohen in 1988.
Scope and Content
The photograph depicts Allen Cohen [donor] guarding SS prisoners at Dachau concentration camp after liberation.
People
- Cohen, Allen L.
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
Subjects
- Military personnel--German--Germany--Dachau--1940-1950.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document