On this day, April 11, 1945, American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_11

• 1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Tue Apr 11, 2023: On this day, April 11, 1945, American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. The world goes in cycles. KO assures us, Trump Camps are coming!

Hey! Maybe they'll give us FREE Red Hats! Manufactured by a MAGA supplier and paid for by government funds, of course.

If you sanitize history, they might even allow the OP to be the Kommendant's Press Secretary.

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2. And after it was liberated

my father in law, Captain in the Medic Corp, went in and tried to save as many as he could. We have the letters he wrote home in which he described the experience. It changed him for the rest of his life.

[Wonder Why]

3. My father's cousin (who died a few years ago) was an officer whose unit discovered one of the camps - it may have

been Buchenwald but I can't be sure. Anyway, he told me this about 15 years ago. He was an officer whose commander ordered him to take his unit into town and bring out every able bodied person to help take care of those alive and bury the dad and to use force if necessary. One upscale woman haughtily refused and he pulled out his pistol and said he would shoot her if she did not come. She went. The local residents were required to see the results of what their countrymen had done.