"Too often people forget that this camp and the others who followed it were not aimed at subjugating foreigners (the first after the invasions were brought there after 1939), but that of the citizens of Germany, who had the courage to rebel against the Nazi regime "
Dee Richard Eberhart
July 10, 1924 ~ May 22, 2022 (age 97)
Dee Eberhart was one of the liberators
of the 42the Rainbow division of the U.S. Army,
who was there when liberation finally came for Dachau.
Dee R. Eberhart, Rifleman, 1st Scout,
Company I, 242nd Infantry Regiment,
42nd Rainbow Division, on the morning of May 3, 1945,
east of Munich shortly before our assault boat crossing of the Inn River.
Photo taken by Jack Parry, a buddy in my squad, with a box camera borrowed from a Bavarian farm house.
It was crisis and my parents did not know
that somewhere deep down in Germany on March 21,
1933, the Dachau concentration camp was opening its doors.
They married on September 26, 1934 and ran their own glue factory,
"Perfecta", later called "Bisonkit". Financially it was not a good time.
My father went on a bike from The Hague to the shoe factories in Brabant and explains how easy it is to paste soles instead of using nails and stitching. My mom does the accounting and is his secretary. They may at some point sell the business to Italians but with a fascist country you do not do business. (ironically, the factory was sold to Italian investors some years ago) So they sell it to someone in Goes, who has no understanding of chemistry but where has money. My father then is employed elswhere. On 21 December 1940 their first daughter Kitty was born.
