- Headline
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Eisenhower Visits Former Nazi Concentration Camp
- Publication Date
- Tuesday, April 17, 1945
- Historical Event
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Eisenhower Asks Congress and Press to Witness Nazi Horrors
This database includes 1,688 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 3
- Author/Byline
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- Article Text
- [First Photo]
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme Allied commander (arrow) gazes at bodies of dead Russian and Polish prisoners of war at the former German concentration camp at Ohrdruf, while touring the 3rd Army front with other generals Thursday.
[Second Photo]
Impressed by the art treasures captured by Yanks in a salt mine at Merckers, Germany, are General Eisenhower (right), Gen. Omar Bradley (left) and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, jr. Also cached in the mines were 100 tons of gold bullion and large amounts of currency—WIREPHOTOS (AP) From Signal Corps. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Carlos G.
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Bibliography
Abzug, Robert H. GIs Remember: Liberating the Concentration Camps. Washington, DC: National Museum of American Jewish History, 1994.
Abzug, Robert H. Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Bridgman, Jon. End of the Holocaust: The Liberation of the Camps. Portland, OR: Areopagitica Press, 1990.
Chamberlin, Brewster S., and Marcia Feldman, editors. The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1945: Eyewitness Accounts of the Liberators. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 1987.
Goodell, Stephen, and Kevin Mahoney. 1945: The Year of Liberation. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1995.
Goodell, Stephen, and Susan D. Bachrach. Liberation 1945. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1995.
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