James Hoyt
Male, Deceased Person
1925 – 2008
Who was James Hoyt?
James Francis Hoyt 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.
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