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Witness to Barbarism Liberation at Dachau, April 28…29, 1945. Witness to BarbarismHorace R. Hansen On the front cover and frontispiece: Three from a series of photos taken uponIllustration credits: The authors personal photographs: pp. 6, 18, 21, 42, 44…15, 117, 120, 138, 155…56, 178, 190, 210, 264, 269, 272 top and middle, 300,tempts to gain permissions were mostly frustrated by the demise of organizationsor lack of information about which organizations or individuals owned the271); National Archives (p. 30). Jean Hansen Doth took the photos of artifacts 1.1942…19432.Paris, August 19443.September…October 19444.November 1944…April 19455.April…August 19456.August…September 19457.Early October 19458.October 1945 (The Recorders)9.October 1945 (The Trials)10.October 1945 (The Camps)11.October 1945 (The Recorders)12.October 1945 (The Recorders Continue)13.The Dachau Trial, November 194514.Mid-November 1945 (The Recorders) 15.The Dachau Trial Continued, November 15, 194516.November 1945 (The Recorders)17.The Dachau Trial Continued, November 194518.November 1945 (The Recorders)19.The Dachau Trial Continued, November 194520.Late November 1945 (The Recorders)21.Late November 1945 (The Recorders Continue)22.The Dachau Trial Continued, Later November 194523.December 1945 (The Recorders)24.December 1945 (The Recorders Continue)25.The Dachau Trail Continued, December 194526.December 1945 (The Recorders)27.December 1945 (The Recorders Continue)28.December 1945 (The Recorders Continue)29.Sentencing, May 194630.April 1984 (Ewald Reynitz)31.Fall 1985 (Ewald Reynitz) ForewordOther primary sources include his letters home and photos taken as he Acknowledgmentsrecorders of Hitlers military-situation conferences who shared with (New York: xirecords of Hitlers war conferences (about 1 percent of the total)found by Allen at Hintersee, Bavaria, after the war. While Gilbert ex-tensively edited the translations of these papers, Ewald Reynitz assuredme his book is a fair representation of Hitlers conferences.Col. William D. Denson, chief trial judge advocate for the pros-his time for an interview in his New York law office in 1984.The National Archives in Washington, D.C., gave me leads to thewhereabouts of the English transcripts of interrogation of the record-ers and their photographs, and of the half-burned documents ofHitlers minutes. This eventually led me to the photo of HeinzBuchholz. The members of Writers Unlimited, a 26-year-old writersclub to which I have belonged more than three years, and especially itsspokesperson, Jean Barnum, who has taught creative writing at theabling me to change the style of my writing.Charles Knox, my neighbor, friend, and author of three publishedworks, persistently encouraged me to write this one. Ellen B. Green, afree-lance editor in St. Paul, helped prepare my manuscript for publi-clarity while maintaining their tone and content.My loving wife, Ruth, and daughter Jean Hansen Doth spentmany hours at the computer, typing my manuscript. [Daughter Gailbeyond counting. „Horace R. Hansen, 1995