- Headline
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Yank Hate Stirred by Nazi Lust
- Sub-Headline
- SHEER BRUTALITY; SS 'Home Work' Comes to Light
- Publication Date
- Saturday, April 7, 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
- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- Wes Gallagher (AP)
- Article Text
- LAGE, Germany—(AP)—The deeper American soldiers go into Hitler's Reich, the deeper becomes their hate of the Germans.
Even for veteran divisions like the Second Armored, hate was a comparatively mild thing and directed mostly at German soldiers, particularly the SS troops.
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EVEN THE HARSH treatment the Germans dealt out in occupied countries did not touch them too deeply. But, since crossing the Rhine they have encountered some Nazi and German "home work."
The Second Armored Division just liberated a Russian prison camp of 33,000 and a Jewish concentration camp of 800.
Since seeing the occupants of these camps, American soldiers now think, "The worst we can do to the Germans is too good."
Young Jewish girls from Hungary, Poland and Germany, with yellow crosses on their backs, told GIs how Germans suddenly descended on their homes in trucks, loaded them on—separating mothers and sons, daughters and fathers—and took them to barbed wire enclosures where they were fed virtually nothing, worked 12 hours a day beaten systematically.
In the Russian camp, the prisoners' looks spoke for themselves. They were starved into skeletons, with arms no bigger around than your thumb.
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SOLDIERS HAD READ of these things, but they never had quite believed them. Now they were seeing with their own eyes.
If American soldiers were making peace now, it would be much tougher for the Germans than any British, American or even Russian diplomat would make it. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Carlos G.
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Bridgman, Jon. End of the Holocaust: The Liberation of the Camps. Portland, OR: Areopagitica Press, 1990.
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