AMERICAN SOLDIERS RESPONSE
Many soldiers during the war were liberators who freed people from the concentration camps. They saw the terrible conditions that they were put through. They witnessed dead bodies everywhere stacked on top of each other. Nurses tried to send aid and nourishment but most were to weak to even be saved. The soldiers were disgusted with everything they saw and were even terrified. Many soldiers wrote their wives and families of the terrible conditions even when they weren't suppose to revel the things they saw.
This map represents the death camps and concentration camps that were in Germany.
Most people in the US were unaware that the Holocaust was going on at the time. US also refused to help the Jewish flee Germany because they wanted to stay out of the war.
"Two more of our men died today. Plus one last night makes three. Plus sixteen makes nineteen. Deaths increasing in great number..."-1945, Anthony Acevedo
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