He was traumatized after what he saw in that camp. He was a young compassionate boy, really and the only thing he really said about the liberation is that he became physically ill and vomited along with many of the other soldiers. I recall as a young girl that he had frequent nightmares and would cry out with his name and serial number. My dad was finally given VA compensation for what they called a "nervous condition", because PTSD was not a diagnosis at the time. He never really talked about his military service much but my mom (who he met in Munich) says she believes he was captured for a time. My dad was this young Hispanic kid from New Mexico that could speak very good German. We always wondered how he learned the language so quickly. My mom says he was also a guard at the Nuremberg trials. The horrors of war...
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