One of the captions below a picture in his scrapbook with a fellow soldier Sgt. Green digging a trench was “Dig Green Dig! It’s up to you whether it’s going to be permanent or temporary.”

As they advanced up through Germany, HOCH’s “Holdings as he would call his squad would stop to break on the side of the road. Sometimes they would take a town to liberate and stay several days before moving on. Their job was to end the war and free the people. Hoch and his squadron of soldiers survived the devastating sniper attacks and constant gun fire whizzing overhead as they approached the Dachaii Concentration Camp in April of 1945. Hoch said in a caption under a picture of 39 stock cars filled with dead bodies, “This place is better to never have seen but it was here that we all realized why we were fighting.” A room full of political prisoners. “God the stench was horrible, and the photo could never show the true horror.” It was that day they liberated the Dachaii Concentration Camp and released the survivors.