Entering Dachau On April 29, 1945, Martha Gellhorn witnessed the liberation of the concentration camp called Dachau. On this day, the U.S. Seventh Army's 45th Infantry Division liberated Dachau. Dachau was the first concentration camp established by Germany's Nazi regime. Martha Gellhorn's report on what she saw is known to be one of the most famous accounts of the discovery of the camps. In her report, Gellhorn wrote, "Behind the barbed wire and the electric fence, the skeletons sat in the sun and searched themselves for lice. They have no age and no faces; they all look alike and like nothing you will ever see, if you are lucky." After the occurrence in Dachau, Martha Gellhorn said she would never be happy again, and the "experience forever darkened her life." A good journalist doesn't just write what they see, but also experience what they see, and Martha Gellhorn did exactly that.