Eisenhower foresaw future generations not believing it and had many photographers and reporters come thru to record it. Who would have believed the current crop of deniers.

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Eisenhower became changed afterward, and spent a great deal of time and effort in the following year trying to make sure the entire German General Staff would be put to death. Often his aides would frantically defray his open efforts because they weren't in line with the somber judiciousness of the rest of the Allied command.

My father the 'soft' anti-Semite took me to tour Dachau when I was ten and let me wander the camp for hours on my own. I stuck my head inside an oven and realized what the black crust was lining the brick walls. The experience marked me quite severely -- and I've spent the rest of my life processing it.

To this day any hint of casual anti-Semitism gives me the same surge of emotion as Eisenhower must have felt. It's a struggle to maintain my balance. A part of me believes anyone who holds such opinions would be better off dead as quickly as possible.

I'm not a spiritual man, but Dachau had an undeniable soul-stench drenching every corner.

My brother did a European river boat tour a couple years ago and they did a side tour of aushwitgz. He was really moved. It’s hard to imagine the deprevity of the Nazis. When the the rethugs and Trumpers throw around comparisons of some minor inconvenience to nazis or Hitler I wish they could be goosestepped thru one of the camps

You wonder what Ike would think of Diaper Donnie.

You’ve come a long way Republicans....just the wrong direction. Maybe they should go the way of the Whigs as the two parties become Progressive Dems and Moderate Dems.

I have read how apoplectic some institutional republicans were with Eisenhower. They thought after FDR and Truman he would slash those high marginal tax rates. He did the opposite.

RIP again now Ike.