Fourth Presbyterian Associate Pastor, WWII Veteran John Boyle Dies At 87 John Boyle found his path to God after walking into the hell of Dachau. He was a 19-year-old sergeant serving with the U.S. Army forces that liberated the infamous German concentration camp on April 29, 1945.
June 10, 2013 - CBS Chicago
Rev. John Boyle, 87, Fourth Presbyterian pastor witnessed horror of Dachau Rev. John Boyle, associate pastor at Fourth ... John Boyle found his path to God after walking into the hell of Dachau. He was a 19-year-old sergeant serving with the U.S. Army forces that liberated the infamous German concentration camp on April 29, 1945. “God forgive us all,” he thought, surveying the unspeakable atrocities around him. “It was a call to be on the side of whatever was the antithesis of that horror,” he later wrote, “and that ...
June 7, 2013 - Chicago Sun-Times
Dwight Eisenhower in Student Operated Press Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who commanded the American forces in Europe, reported on the arrival to the camp, "Our forces liberated and mopped up the infamous concentration camp at Dachau. Approximately 32,000 prisoners were liberated; 300 SS camp...
Father Jean Bernard in Zenit News Agency As Father Bernard says in his foreword, his memoir was written "in memory of my fellow priests who died in Dachau -- for we must never forget what happened there and in many similar places."