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Hilbert Margol | B Battery, 392nd Field Artillery Battalion, 42nd Infantry Division - Army

8:17   |   The artillery unit was pushing toward Munich when they were ordered to pull off the road and prepare to fire. There was a peculiar odor in the air as they set up the howitzers. Hilbert Margol and his twin brother Howard walked around to investigate and they stumbled upon the Dachau Concentration Camp.

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