This is the poignant moment when a man rescued from the hell he endured at the hands of the Nazis met his saviour and gave him a salute almost 70 years later. Joshua Kaufman first saluted his rescuer Daniel Gillespie. Then he kissed his hand and finally, he fell to his feet, exclaiming: 'I have wanted to do this for 70 years. I love you, I love you so much...'. Kaufman, now 87, was a 'walking corpse' on April 29 1945 when U.S. Army soldier Gillespie, 89, marched in with his comrades to liberate the charnel house that was the Dachau concentration camp near Munich.
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Emotional reunion between Joshua Kaufman and rescuer Daniel Gillespie
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Pair salute one as they are reunited on Huntington Beach, California
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Kaufman was a 'walking corpse' when rescued from death camp Dachau
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Now 87, he told US soldier Gillespie: 'I love you so much'
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The men lived only one hour's drive from each other... but neither knew
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