On the side of the stone tower in the center of the concentration camp memorial
Plaque
A yellow stone inscribed plaque mounted to the side for he tower.
The plaque remembers the initial libration by the 3rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron of the XX Corps "Ghost Corps" of the US 3rd Army on May 6, 1945. The camp was later fully liberated by the 80th "Blue Ridge" Infantry Division; The 3rd Cavalry Squadron was serving as the 80th Infantry Division forward screen at the time of the camp liberation.
From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Website:
The 80th Infantry Division "Blue Ridge" and the Liberation of Buchenwald and Ebensee:
During its advance into central Germany, the 80th Infantry Division entered the Buchenwald concentration camp on April 12, 1945, to provide relief to the 6th Armored Division, which had arrived the day before. Several weeks later, as the "Blue Ridge" division pushed into Austria, it liberated Ebensee, a subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Construction of the Ebensee camp had begun in November 1943, and Ebensee started functioning as a subcamp in March 1944. Its purpose was to supply prisoner labor for the construction of elaborate tunnels in the nearby mountains to house underground factories for the production of rockets. Code-named Zement (Cement), the project required backbreaking labor done at a brutal pace. The camp population swelled to more than 18,000 in April 1945.
The text on the plaque is written in English and German. The English reads:
BEGINNING ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON 6. MAY 1945, MEN OF F COMPANY CAPTAIN TIMOTHY BRENNAN COMMANDING 3d CAVALRY RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRON, XX CORPS (GHOST TROOPERS), THIRD U.S. ARMY, PARTICIPATED IN THE LIBERATION OF THIS CONCENTRATION CAMP, KNOWN AS EBENSEE.
