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of
tors, lack of food, no medical care and
miserable living conditions.
In April 1945, as the American and
Russian armies closed in on the
Germans, the 300 American prisoners
in Berga who had managed to survive
were herded by their German captors
into a merciless march to flee from
the Allied advance.
Weak, sick, starved and thirsty,
about 50 Americans died during this
harsh trek. Their European fellow
prisoners also were driven on a death
march. Many of them were callously
shot along the way in accordance with
the Nazi determination to annihilate
Europe's Jews. Finally, the German
guards fled or were captured by the
Russians and Americans who freed the
Berga survivors.
Cohen discusses the post-war after-
math, asserting that the policy of
punishing war criminals and de-
Nazification soon gave way to the
Cold War.
As a result, two of the Berga camp
commanders who were tried by the
Americans served only a few years in.
prison. The third one, arrested by the
East German Communists, was exe-
cuted.
The American GIs who survived
Berga "repressed what they had lived"
and moved on with their lives. "Their
story interested nobody," until Charles
Guggenheim produced a documentary
film that aired on PBS last year, and the
author of this very readable book decid-
ed to probe for the facts in order to
compose this enthralling narrative. ❑
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