R. Burnett Miller is a former mayor of Sacramento

Sacramento

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, California

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 who co-founded, with Oakley Hall

Oakley Hall

Oakley Maxwell Hall was an American novelist. He was born in San Diego, California, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and served in the Marines during World War II. Some of his mysteries were published under the pen names "O.M...

 and Blair Fuller, the Squaw Valley Writer's Conference

Squaw Valley Writer's Conference

The Squaw Valley Writer's Conference is an annual writer's conference organized by the "Squaw Valley Community of Writers." Founded by novelist Oakley Hall and writer Blair Fuller, it is held each summer in Olympic Valley, California...

 and was featured in Ken Burns

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Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs...

' documentary The War

The War (documentary)

The War is a 2007 American seven-part documentary television mini-series about World War II from the perspective of the United States that premiered on September 23, 2007...

.

Miller fought in the Battle of the Bulge

Battle of the Bulge

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 and was with the U.S. 11th Armored Division

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 when it liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria

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Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 on May 6, 1945. The final episode of Burns' documentary features Miller's harrowing eyewitness account of encountering the Holocaust

The Holocaust

The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...

at Mauthausen.