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Capture of Berga Guard

 

 

 

Maj. Fulton Vowell and Capt. Herschel Auerbach (right) apprehend an SS guard, assistant warden at the Berga concentration camp.
When American troops entered the camp, he fled to an old woman's home, but was betrayed by German civilians and taken into custody. (NARA Photo).

 


Source: © Mitchell G. Bard. Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's Camps.. CO: Westview Press, 1994.