September 22, 2024 at 2pm

The Hard Road to Liberation: San Antonio’s 90th Infantry and The Liberation of Flossenburg

On April 23, 1945, the 90th overran the Flossenbürg concentration camp, finding about 1,500 prisoners who had not been evacuated on death marches. The unit's journal recorded that one of its motorized patrols entered the camp that day and found "a serious typhus epidemic" in "full swing."

Learn more about the “Tough Ombres” in the 90th Infantry Division of the US Army in a presentation from Jacqueline Davis, Fort Sam Houston Museum director, and Dr. Edward Westermann, Regents Professor of History and a Piper Professor of 2023 at Texas A&M University-San Antonio.