Letter to Rev. and Mrs. D. H. Porter

This letter describes the concentration camp at Dachau, Germany.

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Waffen- 64-Standortkommandantur /4° Dachau 3, den Dachau Dechas 293 Retreff: / may 1945 ezug: Anlagen: Dear mother and Father, you have, by this time, received a letter mentioning that I am quartered in the concentration camp at It is still undivided whether we will be permitted to describe the conditions here, but I'm writing this now to tell you a little, and will mail it later when we are told we can. this time I have recorded from my first em ateoical It in difficult to know how to begin. By like a hysterical gubbering idiat yet, I know shock and am able to write without seeming will hesitate to believe me no matter how objective you and factual try to be. , even find myself trying to deny what I am looking at with my own eyes. certainly, what I have seen in the past few days will affect my personality for the rest of my life. that it we were going to ipsorte in Darhan, We knew a day or two before we moved was the location of one of the most naturious and that he concentration comps, but while we expented things grangly. in ome none of us know what to buy must seen before they can be behind. but To community he It is easy to read about atractics, was the think that I once reaffed at Valtini book "aut of night" as being preportious! his sun worse 16269