While recently reading through SHAEF files related to POW camps I came across a report on what Allied troops uncovered at Buchenwald. A grim but necessary reminder of a horror that still haunts us. #HMD2025 1/3 - ThreadSky

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bill1940.bsky.social • 29 days ago

While recently reading through SHAEF files related to POW camps I came across a report on what Allied troops uncovered at Buchenwald. A grim but necessary reminder of a horror that still haunts us. #HMD2025 1/3

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bill1940.bsky.social•29 days ago

Perhaps the most chilling statement “Buchenwald is not an exceptional camp.” Highlighting how deeply embedded to extermination process was across Germany and occupied territories. 2/3

bill1940.bsky.social•29 days ago

The file is part of a very large collection of SHAEF documents which can be downloaded from the National Archives - reference WO 229/74 3/3

willie862.bsky.social•29 days ago

Grim reading

bill1940.bsky.social•29 days ago

It is indeed Willie. No matter how many times I read this sort of thing I still struggle to comprehend how people could bring themselves to carry out this sort of premeditated slaughter.

patg63.bsky.social•29 days ago

Every time I learn more, it's more depraved. Until I read the documents you provided, I was not aware how crude the murder process at Buchenwald was.

bill1940.bsky.social•29 days ago

It’s appalling. There’s a level of cruelty and sadism to it that goes beyond murder.

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