What We Saw
No one was prepared for what we were to see there. People looked more like marionettes or skeletons than anything else. But there was no time to be horrified. It was our job to get involved and take action.
Some of the proceeding photos are graphic. Do not view
them unless you are prepared and able to do so.
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"...The sights that met our eyes and the stories were heard...
made us sick and ashamed to be members of the so called enlightened
human race which could perpetrate such atrocities." |
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Read the letter 21 year-old Warren Priest sent home to his mother after being among the first American servicemen to provide aid to the victims of Buchenwald. |
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