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24 Oct 2009 03:04 pm
"The Things I Saw Beggar Description"
Freddie forwards along a document:
[C]heck out this amazing letter from Dwight Eisenhower from the last days of World War II.
Some of the people who have commented on it have remarked about
Eisenhower’s writing style, which is really remarkable in its clarity
and directness. It’s also really interesting to read his personal
reflections on towering historical figures like Omar Bradley or Patton.
What really stays with you, though, is his brief description of touring
a liberated death camp, and in particular, his prediction even then of
Holocaust denial. This is almost a month before V-E day; the world
doesn’t yet know the extent of Germany’s crimes. There’s no greater
knowledge of the Holocaust yet to invite denial. And yet the terrible
and persistent history of anti-Jewish hatred already compels Eisenhower
to vow to stand witness against those who would in the future dismiss
the Holocaust as propaganda.
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