The Terrible Execution At The Dachau concentration camp.
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The Dachau concentration camp was liberated by two divisions of the U.S. Seventh Army on the 29th of April, 1945. 40 members of it staff were tried at the camp by a US General Military Court, presided over by Brigadier General John Lenz.
The trials lasted from the 15th of November to the 13th of December 1945. 36 defendants received the death sentence. Eight of these sentences were reduced to terms of imprisonment by.. check comment for more details.
Emmett Till's mother insisted on an open casket for her son's funeral and declined the mortician's offer to "touch up" his body. "I think everyone needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till," she said.
In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was abducted, tortured, killed, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant.
Till's killers were Roy Bryant (Carolyn's husband) and his half-brother J.W. Milam. Both men were acquitted of the crime by an all-white jury. In 1956, they did a story with Look Magazine in which they admitted to the murder and received $4,000 in compensation.
An unserved warrant charging Carolyn Bryant with kidnapping was discovered in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse last week. Surprisingly, Carolyn Bryant is still alive. History is closer to us than you think.
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