The first concentration camp to open inside of Hitler’s Germany was Dachau, and it was in operation for over 12 years until at the end of the Second World War it was liberated by the Americans. It was a camp full of torture and execution, and when the Americans liberated the camp there were many different SS guards who were found at the camp. These were men and women who had been brutal and barbaric to the inmates of Dachau, but the American soldiers would carry out a number of executions of the former guards.
In a clearing, the SS guards were gathered and then a machine gun was fired towards them and many were executed. In other areas of the camp, Americans turned a blind eye to the violent reprisals of the prisoners who beat a number of former guards to death. But the executions were investigated, but nothing came of this.