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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

A Veteran's Story Of Liberating Dachau Concentration Camp

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Podcasts

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4.1738 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In her Fox Nation special, The Final Journey of the Greatest Generation,' Martha took a deep dive into the tales of many WWII heroes like Lockered "Bud" Gahs, who was a part of the esteemed 42nd Infantry Division that played a large role in liberating the Dachau Concentration Camp. When Martha traveled back to Normandy, France last week to honor the 80th anniversary of D-Day, she had the opportunity to reconnect with Bud & hear more of his story.   Live from Normandy, Bud recounts the shock of discovering concentration camps, how it feels to be surrounded by fellow veterans in such a meaningful place, and why he believes the suffering endured and sacrifices made during WWII should be a more important teaching point for younger generations.   Follow Martha on X: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello, everybody. It's Martha McCallum here, and it's a new edition of the Untold Story podcast.

0:48.3

And you may remember Bud Gas from my Fox Nation series, The Final Journey of the Greatest Generation.

0:55.2

He told me then about liberating Dachau and seeing Jewish prisoners that they didn't know

1:01.6

it was happening, really, in the camps at that point when he saw them for the first time.

1:06.6

Watch this.

1:07.9

They told us to go up, there was about six of us that go up and clear the woods,

1:13.0

which meant walk through it, you know, and make sure there weren't anybody. They figured that

1:19.8

some of the guards would put on the prison guard with the stripes and try to get through.

1:30.6

So we were walking through. We got pretty well through it and all of a sudden the bush was started rumble so we almost shot them ready to

1:36.2

shoot them and uh it was prisoners and they weren't didn't have any meat on them and in this prison garb and

1:48.0

and smelled pretty bad and were dirty so we figured it was okay so when I'm

1:57.2

come up and hugged me all up and he had bugs and dirt and everything but this was

2:03.5

sincere then went down and kissed my feet which is hard to do you know know. I'm sorry.

2:20.6

He's a remarkable man,

2:22.2

and we had the honor of seeing him again here in Normandy.

2:26.0

So what has this been like?

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