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Thursday, April 11, 2002

U.S. veterans, Holocaust survivors meet to mark 57 years since Nazi camp's liberation
[...] Buchenwald, where victims were starved, tortured and worked to death, was the first major concentration camp entered by American forces at the end of World War II.

"It has an aura of unreality about it," Warren Priest, one of the former medical soldiers, said of his first return to the camp since 1945. "Everything that made Buchenwald the hideous place it was has been removed," he said. "All of the drabness, all of the dirt, all of the bodies, all of the unmentionable sights -- and most of all, all of the odor, which was inescapable."

[...] U.S. Gen. George S. Patton was so disgusted by what the Nazis did at Buchenwald that he ordered the citizens of nearby Weimar to come and see the victims.

"In all that viewing by all those people, not one of them said `How awful,"' recalled Priest, 80, of Campton, N.H., who was an orthopedic surgical technician at the time. "That was the problem -- that indifference."

Was? Is.

posted by Terry at 2:34:00 PM

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