James Hoyt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

James Hoyt

American soldier

Date of Birth: 16-May-1925

Place of Birth: Oxford, Iowa, United States

Date of Death: 11-Aug-2008

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About James Hoyt

  • James Francis Hoyt (May 16, 1925 – August 11, 2008) was one of the four American soldiers who discovered the Buchenwald concentration camp.
  • According to military records, Hoyt, then a private first class, was part of a group of four members of the 6th Armored Division, who were the first Americans to discover Buchenwald on April 11, 1945.The four original liberators were Capt.
  • Frederic Keffer, Tech.
  • Sgt.
  • Herbert Gottschalk, Sgt.
  • Harry Ward and Hoyt, a private first class. His son, John, said the family has been touched by it all.
  • He said he's even followed blogs of Holocaust deniers after his father's death. "Some of the dissent was most interesting", he said. "I'm not saying my dad was a hero to every person in the world, but I'm saying he certainly had a heroic approach and outlook, and definitely went above and beyond a person's call of duty to understand the atrocities of war", James son explained after his father's death. "They say all's fair in love and war.
  • Well, some of these things weren't so fair, especially if you were a member of an ethnic group or cultural group that didn't suit the people of power.
  • You were scheduled to be obliterated.
  • And that's not OK.
  • That's not what democracy and freedom is all about." His father suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder up until the day he died; he only began getting help in the 1990s. "His whole life, he had fitful dreams", John Hoyt said. As a warrior who had seen the horrors of war, he opposed the invasion of Iraq, his son said.

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