found in grandmother West's scrapbook Barry West Leon Journal-reporter Major Charles Gragg just back from Germany and his wife and their daughter, Nancy of Centerville are enjoying a visit at the home of Mrs. Gragg's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Parsons of High Point. Major Gragg is with the third army. He will enjoy a thirty day furlough in Iowa. Major Bragg was with the 86th division of the their army in the provost marshal office connected with the military police. Major Gragg has returned here with vivid memories of the horror of prison camps, bombed towns and dazed people. On V-E day Major Gragg was in the Bavarian Alps in Berchtesgaden, Hitler's famous country home. He described the country surrounding Berchtesgaden as very beautiful. His division the first one to clean out the famed Dachau prison horror camp. When he arrived in Dacuhau there were 38 flat cars standing on the tracks filled with dead prisoners. The job of Major Gragg and his group was to capture the SS Troopers, whom he described as blood thirsty morons. Some were well educated, and very adroit in their ways, but they were handled as war criminals. Major Gragg had the pleasure of capturing one of the war criminals high on the wanted list, the Prime Minister of Hungary. this man was responsible for 1,000,000 deaths in the Balkans.