Guest columnist Bob Couch [“Where is the wisdom? Much very wrong in ‘Age of Ignorance,’” Gazette, Feb. 27] decries widespread “ignorance” and the “far too many people” in present-day America who are “trying to appear erudite” by lacing their opinions on current events with gratuitous and inapt references to Adolf Hitler and Nazism. But in fact it the writer who hasn’t got the history right. Recounting a visit to the Dachau camp in 1960, he writes that he stood in “a concrete room” in which “thousands” were “gassed.” Dachau was a concentration camp, not a purpose-built killing center akin to those constructed by the Nazi regime in occupied Poland during the Second World War; and while a crematorium equipped with a gas chamber was constructed at Dachau in 1942, researchers have yet to uncover any conclusive evidence that it was ever used to kill human beings. (See, for instance, https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/dachau or https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/en/.)

R. J. Rajballie

Greenfield