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

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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.