On this day in history, April 11, 1945, US troops enter Buchenwald concentration camp, confront Nazi horrors
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US Army forces under the command of Gen. George Patton liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, on this day in history, April 11, 1945.
"Now, at least, he will know what he is fighting against." "I can’t really describe it, to tell you how horrendous it was to see these people treated like animals. Even worse than that." — GI Andrew Kiniry "All Jews in countries occupied or controlled by Germany, numbering 3½ to 4 million should, after deportation and concentration in the East, be at one blow exterminated." — Riegner Telegram, 1942 The human atrocity witnessed by U.S. troops remains hard to fathom, even today. Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
Adolf Hitler's Germany operated thousands of camps, workhouses and ghettoes to imprison and kill Jews as part of its "final solution" during World War II.