America at Dachau
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For three months, Gaskill ministered to liberated inmates and imprisoned SS soldiers at Dachau. Every evening for a month, Gaskill and other clergymen held mass funerals for those who died from starvation and disease. Gaskill tore down and kept the German sign forbidding entry to a mass grave on a hill. He replaced it with a cross and a Jewish star. He eventually made German prisoners bury the dead in separate graves in the cemeteries in town.
“At incredible Dachau, Chaplain Gaskill arranged for all the multitudinous services of the Ministry and Priesthood to be performed as necessary for many denominations in many different tongues. Although much has already been written about Dachau, this article, giving the experiences and observations of Chaplain Gaskill, paints an exceptionally vivid picture and presents it in a different light.—AUBREY L. BRADFORD Colonel MC Commanding.”
Chaplain John G. Gaskill
Rev. John Gilbert Gaskill (1905-1996) was a U.S. Army chaplain who arrived in Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany on May 2, 1945, three days after it was captured by American soldiers.
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America at Dachau - Chaplain John G. Gaskill
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AMERICA AT DACHAU
BY
CHAPLAIN JOHN G. GASKILL
East Derry, New Hampshire
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS 3
Foreword..... 4
First Impressions 5
Administration at Dachau 8
Hospitalization at Dachau 14
Chaplain at Dachau 19
Facts Ascertained Relating To The Mass Burial At Dachau, Germany. 22
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 26
Foreword.....
"At incredible Dachau, Chaplain Gaskill arranged for all the multitudinous services of the Ministry and Priesthood to be performed as necessary for many denominations in many different tongues. Although much has already been written about Dachau, this article, giving the experiences and observations of Chaplain Gaskill, paints an exceptionally vivid picture and presents it in a different light.
Signed,
AUBREY L. BRADFORD
Colonel MC Commanding."
First Impressions
There are THOUSANDS who have SEEN Dachau; from the first moment of its capture it was a mecca for many sincerely curious and in some instances sordid minds which wanted to see the depth of Nazi atrocity. There are, apart from the internees, comparatively FEW WHO KNOW Dachau. They are the ones who lived in that Camp during the first few terrifying weeks after its liberation. My unit, the 127th Evac. Hosp., and the 116th Evac. Hosp., were assigned the task of living in, cleaning up and caring for the thousands of sick. As Chaplain for the hospital, I ministered at Dachau. It was the greatest challenge of my Christian ministry.
Have you ever been kissed by a bewhiskered man who apparently has not washed for weeks; whose clothing is so torn and filthy it scarcely holds together; a man who is louse-ridden and in whose hollow eyes is the glassy stare! starvation and the eager bewilderment of one set at liberty after years of confinement? Or have you been kissed by one whose fevered voice was a parched