re: Interesting reddit thread on concentration camps from the Red Army perspective

I had the honor of meeting Brigadier General Harold A. Dye about 7 years ago. He was the featured speaker at a meeting, talking about his experience in WW2.

Before the formal meeting began, he was talking to a few of us and talked about when his unit got to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. His story was quite graphic (so you may want to skip this if you've just eaten)...





He said that they were sitting in a Jeep, and a group of prisoners had come up and surrounded them, begging for food, medical attention, etc. The scene was so disturbing that his first sergeant vomited on himself and on a couple of the prisoners. To their horror, one of the prisoners began licking the vomit up he was so hungry.