Volume 12 , Issue 9

The Gottschalk Story & Perry, OK

Roy says, " I wonder if the Gottschalk in this story was related to any of the folks here in Perry?"

According to scrapbookpages.com/Buchernwald/, entitled Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, "The Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated on April 11, 1945 by four soldiers in the Sixth Armored Division of the US Third Army, commanded by General George S. Patton. Just before the Americans arrived, the camp had already been taken over by the Communist prisoners who had killed some of the guards and forced the rest to flee into the nearby woods. Pfc. James Hoyt was driving the M8 armoured vehicle which brought Capt. Frederic Keffer, Tech. Sgt. Herbert Gottschalk and Sgt. Harry Ward to the Buchenwald camp that day."
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