WWII Germany: Weimar Civilians Forced To Tour Buchenwald Concentration Camp *Graphic Images*

[appalachiablue]

Civilians of a town, Wiemar on a forced visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp of the Nazis after World War II.

The Buchenwald concentration camp of the Nazis after World War II. 1200 civilians of a town Wiemar, nearby the camp, being sent on a forced tour of the camp. A group of smiling civilians, men and women walk towards the camp.

Civilians enter the camp and see the display of articles made of human skin. Lampshades, paintings and display of human bones. Human heads shrunk to one fifth of their normal size. Women faint and are carried out. Civilians visit the ill-conditions of prisoners at surviving sections of the camp. Truckloads of dead bodies of victims of this camp. Location: Buchenwald Germany. Date: 1945.

[captain queeg]

1. Eisenhower wanted his generals to walk thru. Patton wouldn't do it.

Eisenhower foresaw future generations not believing it and had many photographers and reporters come thru to record it. Who would have believed the current crop of deniers.

[byronius]

3. I read that Eisenhower walked through Ohrdruf alone because everyone else including Patton got sick.

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Eisenhower became changed afterward, and spent a great deal of time and effort in the following year trying to make sure the entire German General Staff would be put to death. Often his aides would frantically defray his open efforts because they weren't in line with the somber judiciousness of the rest of the Allied command.

My father the 'soft' anti-Semite took me to tour Dachau when I was ten and let me wander the camp for hours on my own. I stuck my head inside an oven and realized what the black crust was lining the brick walls. The experience marked me quite severely -- and I've spent the rest of my life processing it.

To this day any hint of casual anti-Semitism gives me the same surge of emotion as Eisenhower must have felt. It's a struggle to maintain my balance. A part of me believes anyone who holds such opinions would be better off dead as quickly as possible.

I'm not a spiritual man, but Dachau had an undeniable soul-stench drenching every corner.

[captain queeg]

4. Wow. If I ever get over there I'd like to see it.

My brother did a European river boat tour a couple years ago and they did a side tour of aushwitgz. He was really moved. It’s hard to imagine the deprevity of the Nazis. When the the rethugs and Trumpers throw around comparisons of some minor inconvenience to nazis or Hitler I wish they could be goosestepped thru one of the camps

[colsohlibgal]

2. Eisenhower Was Wise To Want That

You wonder what Ike would think of Diaper Donnie.

You’ve come a long way Republicans....just the wrong direction. Maybe they should go the way of the Whigs as the two parties become Progressive Dems and Moderate Dems.

I have read how apoplectic some institutional republicans were with Eisenhower. They thought after FDR and Truman he would slash those high marginal tax rates. He did the opposite.

RIP again now Ike.