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In article <gate.5BuyiB1w164w@b-cpu.UUCP>, ralphw@b-cpu.UUCP (Ralph Winston) writes:

>     Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his memoir _Crusade in Europe_, also
>forgot to mention the "gas chambers."  Why wasn't the weapon used to
>murder 6 million Jews worthy of a passing reference?  Was our future
>president being "insensitive" to Jews?

This is what Eisenhower said on pages 408-9 of "Crusade in Europe"

    "The same day [April 12, 1945] I saw my first horror camp.  It was
  near the town of Gotha.  I have never felt able to describe my
  emotional reactions when I first came face to face with indisputable
  evidence of Nazi brutality and ruthless disregard of every shred of
  decency.  Up to that time I had known about it only generally or
  through secondary sources.  I am certain, however that I have never
  at any other time experienced an equal sense of shock.

    "I visited every nook and cranny of the camp because I felt it my
  duty to be in a position from then on to testify at first hand about
  these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or
  assumption that `the stories of Nazi brutality were just
  propaganda.'  Some members of the visiting party were unable to
  through the ordeal.  I not only did so but as soon as I returned to
  Patton's headquarters that evening I sent communications to both
  Washington and London, urging the two governments to send instantly
  to Germany a random group of newspaper editors and representative
  groups from the national legislatures.  I felt that the evidence
  should be immediately placed before the American and British publics
  in a fashion that would leave no room for cynical doubt."

And on page 439

    "Of all these [Displaced Persons] the Jews were in the most
  deplorable condition.  For years they had been beaten, starved, and
  tortured."

And in "Ike the Soldier: As they knew him" (G.P. Putnam and Sons, New
York, 1987) Merle Miller quotes Eisenhower speaking on April 25th 1945
to the members of Congress and Journalists who had been shown
Buchenwald the day before

    "You saw only one camp yesterday.  There are many others.  Your
  responsibilities, I believe, extend into a great field, and
  informing the people at home of things like these atrocities is one
  of them...  Nothing is covered up.  We have nothing to conceal.  The
  barbarous treatment these people received in the German
  concentration camps is almost unbelievable.  I want you to see for
  yourself and be spokesmen for the United States."  [pages 774-5]
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