At 22, Army medic LeRoy "Pete" Petersohn helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen and documented its horrors in a letter home, testimony his son says Petersohn felt compelled to record for history.
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Brit McCandless Farmer
Updated on: June 21, 2026 / 7:00 PM EDT
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