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This quote from General Dwight Eisenhower was made in 1945:


"The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where they [there] were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter."

-General Dwight Eisenhower


Witnessing what caused the Commander of Allied Forces in World War II to make this statement? (5 points)


the liberation of a concentration camp


the D-day attack on Omaha Beach


the capture of the bunker in which Hitler died


the shelters used by victims of the atomic bomb

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the liberation of a concentration camp

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The correct answer is A) the liberation of a concentration camp.

What caused the Commander of Allied Forces in World War II to make this statement was the liberation of a concentration camp.

General Dwight Eisenhower visited a concentration camp in Buchenwald, "Ohrdruf-Nord," on April 12, 1945.  What he witnessed was horrible. He described is "beyond the American mind to comprehend." He ordered some soldiers to come and see the atrocities and cruelty inflicted on the Jewish people.

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