. >> reporter: hilbert margel, who lives in atlanta, is three months away from his 100th birthday. just before his 21st birthday, army private first class margel, a jewish soldier, was deployed to fight the nazi in the world war ii. >> and when the battle of the bulge broke out, they rushed our three infantry regiments as fast as they could get them over there. >> the battle of the bulge was ending as hilbert on the right and his late identical twin brother howard on the left arrived and occupied france. the two guner sand their 42nd rainbow infantry division ended up in combat and headed across the border to germany. >> we couldn't be more than three yards away from our h howitzer, because we could get fire missions morning, noon, and night. >> reporter: on april 29th, the brothers investigated a horrible odor they smelled. after about 15 minutes walking through the woods, they saw an open train boxcar in the german city of dachao. >> what did you see in the box karr? >> nothing but deceased bodies. we had a little camera we had liberated a couple of weeks earlier, we decided, let

hilbert was one of the first americans to uncover the atrocities of the dachau concentration camp. >>believes antisemitism is as bad as it has ever been in this country. cnn's gary tuchman has his story. >> reporter: hilbert, who lives in atlanta, is three months away from his 100th birthday. before his 21st birthday, army private first class hilbert, a jewish soldier, was deployed to fight thenauts sees in world war ii. >> when the battle of the bulge broke out, they rushed our three infantry regiments as fast as they could. >> reporter: the bat of the bulge was ending. his twin brother on left and he arrived in okfied france. the gunners their infantry division ended up in combat and headed across the border to germany. >> we couldn't be more than three yards away from our howitzer. we could get fire missions morning, noon, night. >> reporter: april 29, 1945, the brothers investigated a horrible odor they smelled. after 15 minutes walking through the woods they saw an open train box car and the german city of dachau. >> what did you see in the box car? >> nothing but deceased bodies

>> reporter: before we left hilbert, we thanked him. >> never thought of myself as a hero.me, the true heroes are those that didn't make it back. those are the true heroes. >> gary tuchman joins me now. what an incredible man, an incredible life. and also at this age to be so engaged and doing that. >> his presentation was magnificent. and he did it all, the entire hour, without notes. and he also operated a powerpoint presentation to show pictures. >> did he really? wow. >> and our speech, 15 minutes of shaking hands afterwards, never sat down. he stood up the whole time. it reminds me, when we did this story, today, the youngest world war ii surviving veteran, who was 18 years old in 1945 when the war ended, today is 95 or 96. so, if you're lucky enough to know a world war ii veteran or you're lucky enough to meet a world war ii veteran, don't forget to say thank you. >> i just rewatched "the pacific" and "band of brothers" on max. it's incredible. just so incredible. the -- i mean, the fighting that those -- >> i feel the same way you do. >> just incredible. gary tuchman

. >> reporter: hilbert is since on a mission to teach and inspire. he speaks to schools and organizations. >> let's give a warm welcome. >> reporter: and late last week, it was to hundreds of students at atlanta's st. pius x catholic school. >> close to 32,000 prisoners in those barracks when we were there that sunday morning. >> reporter: but he's never considered his speeches more important than he does today because of what happened in israel on october 7. in all the years you've been back from the war, and it has been almost 80 years, have you ever seen anti-semitic osm in t country as bad as it is today? >> no. i've had some incidents growing up, jacksonville, florida, and then in business, but nothing, nothing like it is happening now. >> reporter: his son jerry says he's never seen his 99-year-old father struggling with his emotions like he is now. >> he wants to talk about it and go a little deeper, but he can't. it is too painful to think that all this could happen over again. >> if it doesn't slow down, if it doesn't change -- >> the anti-s

already and surrounded by as rated tanks and vague goes along with is really all drones, overheads, hilbert and gulf. all right, with gunfire from time to time. and um, understand as well that has said that so. so i talked to the oh shante rescue d town pick pulling guys. i have my phone code supposed to take on us. yes, that's what has been reported about his radio attempts to util. further as right? because the outside to repeat his weekend, which is a very populated densely populated repeat, you can with that lays and roof asbestos homes. yes. at the end for us to make sure seems very low and the ross has to repeat g. can i have that being 2 out of shots as several times before that i can say is that out of saucer repeat you can is that very densely populated refugee camp in gauze us thread. one of the most densely populated areas of gaza and the infrastructure at structure is very l. all are there. there's the, populated with that lays was very small of the roads to the extent that when someone dies or someone passes away, they can carry. they can't carry him on shoulder as they carry h

or it wasn't like now to a journalist, comes a challenge in the southern goals and said hilbert about 5 homes of good to get she will. and thanks for joining us again here just i'm wanted to mention we were we were able to hear from those who was stuck in egypt and they've now been able to return to gaza. also bring back the remains of those who died and egyptian hospitals homes are just very quickly, have a listen to this was this the phone. my father was injured in the city of ruffled in the shelter schools from after 10 days we transferred him to the arrow republic of egypt. and our brothers in egypt did not neglect dustin hours hospital and most of his condition was difficult. it was his will that if he was monitored, we would very human, our land, a country and the country of our ancestors. i was on a visit to egypt and i was communicating with my family by the end so that i was afraid to answer if there was a connection on other times the inside that was cut off due to the will, the electricity was always call. and so i did not communicate with them daily. so um, so i hope you h

. >> hilbert is three months away from his 100th birthday. before his 21st birthday, he was deployed to fight the nazis the world war ii. >> when the battle of the bulge broke out, they rushed our infantry regiments as fast as they could get them over there. >> it was ending as he and his twin brother arrived and occupied france. the two gunners and their 42nd infantry division ended up in combat and headed across the border to germany. >> couldn't be more than three yards away from it because we could get fired on morning, noon, and night. >> on april 29th, 1945, they investigated a horrible odor. after about 15 minutes walking through the woods, they saw an open train boxcar in a german city. what did you see in the boxcar? >> nothing but deceased bodies. we had a little -- we had liberated a couple of weeks earlier so we decided let's go ahead and take a picture of that boxcar, which we did. >> the brothers knew nothing about nazi death or concentration camps but they were among the first american soldiers on the scene. they were the liber

. >> reporter: hilbert is three months away from his 100th birthday.ust before his 21st birthday, the army private first class, jewish soldsoldier, was deploye fight the nazis. >> when battle. bulge broke out, they rushed our infantry as fast as they could get them over there. >> reporter: battle of the bulge was ending as he and his late twin brother arrived and occupied france. the two gunners ended up in combat and headed to germany. >> we couldn't be more than 3 yards away from our howitzer because we could get fire missions morning, noon and night. >> reporter: and they investigated a horrible odor. and after about 15 minutes, they saw an open train box car. what did you see in the box car? >> nothing but deceased bodies. we had a little camera, so we decided let's go ahead and take a picture of that box car, which we did. >> reporter: and the brothers knew nothing about nazi death or concentration camps. but hill bert and howard were among the first american soldiers on the scene. they were the liberators of the a