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Topics => Military News/Veterans => Topic started by: Libertas on December 29, 2014, 12:25:55 PM
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/395352/christmas-americas-first-seal-gestapo-prison-patrick-k-odonnell (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/395352/christmas-americas-first-seal-gestapo-prison-patrick-k-odonnell)
He was a dentist and swim commando and an experienced OSS Marine Unit leader...captured, sent to Austria and survived Mauthausen concentration camp, kept alive by other inmates who saw him as their best human recorder of Nazi crimes against humanity...became star witness at Nuremburg!
Heck of a story!
And it was elements of Patton's 3rd Army that liberated that hellhole, I looked it up - 41st Recon Sq of the 11th Armored Division. And of those also surviving that Hell - famed Nazi-hunter Simon Weisenthal and a Hungarian-born Jew named Ted Rubin who emigrated to America and was awarded the Medal of Honor for action in Korea. If liberation had been delayed...would any of these people been alive?
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Great read, Libertas. ::USA::