CNN reporting on Anthony Acevedo, who was one of 350 soldiers being held at Berga am Elster, a satellite camp of the Nazis' notorious Buchenwald concentration camp..

The soldiers held were slaves to the Nazis in the final days of WWII.. Less than half of the soldiers there survived..

Acevedo shows few emotions as he scans the pages of his diary. But when he gets to one of his final entries, the decades of pent-up pain, the horror witnessed by a 20-year-old medic, are too much. "We were liberated today, April the 23, 1945," he reads. His body shakes, and he begins sobbing. "Sorry," he says, tears rolling down his face. "I'm sorry."

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