AAR, 222nd Infantry Regiment, April 1945

I have scanned at 300 dpi the After Action
Report of the 222nd Infantry Regiment,
42nd Infantry Division, for April 1945.

The pdf is twenty-seven pages and 12 megabytes
in size. If anyone would like a copy, just
let me know, and I will email it in two parts.

Page 18 of the AAR was missing from the folder
at the Archives. It is one of the pages discussing
Dachau.

In addition, I have 14 pages of the Unit Journal
covering 28 - 30 April. I did not scan these because
they require my large scanner.

Of note is the entry for 1210, 29 April, which is the
first in the clear reference to Dachau: "Fury 6 to Furn 6: Concentration camp
at Dachau will be guarded by uncovering unit
until relieved."


Dave

 

From the AAR:

"Thus the doughs of the 222d liberated the cruelest, most fiendish concentration
camps in the history of all wars. The deaths of the thousands of Nazi prisoners
could not be avenged by the deaths of a few SS guards. They can only be avenged when our world is aroused so by what the 222nd uncovered in Dachau and by what others have found at all the Dachau's scattered throughout Germany, that never again will any party, government or people be allowed to mar the face of the earth with such inhumanity."

Many thanks to Tom H. for transcribing this.


Dave

 

Hallo, I'm the son of the german officer Freiherr von Truchseß who was killed near Dachau by Members of the US 222nd Infantry Regiment. I would like to know what happened really at Wembling. Dear Dave please send me Your PDF about the story of the US 222nd Infantry Regiment in april 1945.
Thanks in advance

 

I did not see any reference to Wembling in the AAR.

Nonetheless, I will be glad to send you the report. What is your
email?


Dave

 

Not surprising, I suppose, but there is no reference to the
killing of the SS at Webling in the AAR:

Axis History Forum • View topic - Alleged massacre of POWs at Webling


Dave

 

The History of the 42nd Infantry Division has been digitized
by CARL:

Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library : Compound Object Viewer


Dave

 

Our family is very interested in a copy of the After Action
Report of the 222nd Infantry Regiment. Our deceased Grandfather Chester Domanski was in the 222nd
as recently discovered in his personal papers.

 

Send me a PM with your email address.


Dave

 

That and the phrases Never Forget or Never Again are some of the most hilarious stuff in history. How many resources are spent to catch some 90 year old guy who was 20 at the end of the war for being in some camp while all over the world TODAY there is slavery and slaughter going on. I would think stopping killing would be more important than revenge.