The 102nd Infantry Division,  nicknamed “Special Designation” soldiers, under command of 2* Major General Frank Augustus Keating  , had arrived in Gardelegen on the evening of April 14th and had accepted the surrender of the Luftwaffe air base. The German troops were most anxious to surrender to the Americans, rather than to the Russians who were only a … Continue reading Gardelegen Massacre, 13 April 1945. Prisoners burned to death inside a barn.