Latest news with #Dachau
Arab News
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Suspected Houthi fighter arrested in Germany
BERLIN: A Yemeni man suspected of having fought with the country's Iran-backed Houthis was arrested in Germany on Thursday, prosecutors said. The man, partially named as Hussein H., was detained by police in the southern town of Dachau, the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement. He is suspected of 'being a member of a terrorist organization' after allegedly joining the Houthis in October 2022. Prosecutors said the man, after receiving ideological and military training, had briefly fought for the militia in clashes in Yemen's central Marib province in early 2023. The Houthis have imposed strict rule over the large swathe of Yemen under their control, covering two-thirds of the population. Since the Gaza war broke out after the Hamas attack of October 2023, the Houthis have regularly fired missiles and drones at maritime traffic and at Israel in what they say are acts of solidarity with Palestinians. The militia warned Monday they would impose a 'naval blockade' on the Israeli port of Haifa after the country's military intensified its offensive in Gaza.
Associated Press
22-05-2025
- Associated Press
A Yemeni man accused of joining the Houthi rebels has been arrested in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — A Yemeni man accused of joining the Houthi rebels in his homeland and briefly fighting for the group was arrested in Germany on Thursday, prosecutors said. The suspect, identified only as Hussein H. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested in Dachau, near Munich. Federal prosecutors said he is accused of being a member of a foreign terror organization as a youth. He allegedly joined the Houthi movement in October 2022 and underwent ideological training, followed by three months of military training. In early 2023, he briefly fought for the group in Yemen's Marib region, prosecutors said. A judge ordered the man kept in custody pending a possible indictment. Prosecutors didn't specify when he came to Germany. The Houthis have launched repeated missile attacks targeting Israel as well as international shipping in the Red Sea, portraying it as a response to Israel's offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Washington Post
09-05-2025
- General
- Washington Post
How a little-known Japanese American battalion freed Jews from a Nazi death march
WAAKIRCHEN, Germany — Eighty years ago, Abba Naor was among several thousand Jews and other prisoners evacuated from Nazi concentration camps and forced to walk for days on the notorious Dachau death march — without food or water, often in freezing temperatures. Many perished on the way. On the eighth night, as snow fell and covered the exhausted prisoners, their SS guards — fearing the fast-approaching Allies — vanished.
CBS News
08-05-2025
- General
- CBS News
Family of Holocaust liberator from Ellwood City keeps history alive, 80 years later
Thursday marked 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe and the end of the Holocaust, which killed 6 million Jews. Shortly after the war started, one young man was just beginning his life in the small borough of Ellwood City, Lawrence County, when he was drafted. Eventually, he would liberate a concentration camp, and what he saw was unimaginable and would stay with him the rest of his life. Throughout her childhood, Patty Partington didn't know much about her dad's time overseas. "My father, like most servicemen, when they came home, they didn't talk about the war much," Partington said. "They sort of felt like their story wasn't any different than anybody else. He said, 'We came home, and we just wanted to get on with our lives.'" It took Guy Prestia 50 years, but he eventually opened up, not just to family, but also to the public, sharing his memories, until he died last August at 102. "The stench there was just so bad that you could never forget about that," Prestia said in 2022 during a talk with students at Riverside High School, hosted by the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. Prestia graduated from Lincoln High School in 1940 and was working in a machine shop when he was drafted. He spent 511 days in combat with the 45th Infantry Division before receiving an assignment he and his fellow brothers weren't prepared for. "He said, 'That's when I realized what we were fighting for,'" Partington said. Dachau was the first and longest-operating concentration camp created by the Nazis, located near Munich. When Prestia and his unit arrived there on April 29, 1945, they came across dozens of rail cars carrying what they thought were stacks of logs. "When we got closer, we saw that they were dead bodies," Prestia said. "They were men, women, children on there, on that train." The camp's commanding officers had already abandoned the site, knowing the Allies were on the way. To try to hide their crimes, the Nazis sent thousands of prisoners on death marches, and left behind thousands more, either dead or barely holding on, with guards who didn't put up much resistance. In the kitchen, Prestia said they found big pots of soup, which they later learned had been poisoned. "They had planned on killing everyone in that camp. They didn't want any survivors," Partington said. According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, there were more than 200,000 prisoners in Dachau between 1933 and 1945. The Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial reports more than 41,000 died there, although the exact number is unclear. Prestia's division, with other American forces, liberated about 32,000. "They were so undernourished that the medics told us that if you gave them any food, that would probably kill them," Prestia said. Eight days later, on May 8, the war in Europe ended, and while Prestia was at Dachau for only one day, it never left him. "He said, 'I believe it taught me empathy for other people in other situations outside of myself,'" Partington said. It's a lesson his daughter said is just as imperative in our world today as it was 80 years ago, when her father helped end the atrocities of the Holocaust.
