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Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Bias/Community Outreach Unit Agent Reggie Johnson tells the story of his father, U.S. Army Maj. George Yancy Johnson, who endured racism and witnessed horrific acts of inhumanity while serving during World War II. Reggie Johnson said his father was one of only a few Black commissioned officers at the beginning of World War II, and took part in the liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp. “I’d heard of (the camp), but nothing could prepare me for the reality of what humans could do to each other,” George Johnson wrote in his diary. “I eventually saw Graf…