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• cynar@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Germans kept careful documentation. The allies also photographed the hell out of it, and protected those records. They knew future generations (us) wouldn’t believe how evil “normal” people could get. So made sure to collect plenty of evidence.

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  • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I couldn’t remember which general it was, so I had to swallow my pride and ask ChatGPT.

    The general who famously called for documentation of concentration camps during their liberation was General Dwight D. Eisenhower. When U.S. forces liberated the Ohrdruf concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald, on April 4, 1945, Eisenhower recognized the significance of documenting the atrocities. He anticipated that future generations might doubt the extent of Nazi crimes, so he ordered extensive photographic and film documentation of the camp’s conditions.

    Eisenhower even invited journalists and members of Congress to visit the camps to ensure that eyewitness accounts would back up the documentation. He felt it was crucial to make the evidence indisputable, as he feared that without such documentation, people might one day deny or downplay the horrors of the Holocaust.

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  • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And folks just call it fake. Isn’t that neat?

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