Ohrdurf, American-occupied Germany. General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, visits the concentration camp, a subsidiary of Buchenwald. He is accompanied by Generals Omar Bradley and George Patton. He wants to see every nook and cranny. Shortly thereafter, Nordhausen will be discovered, and Buchenwald will be discovered on the same day. Eisenhower will comment that although the average American soldier “knew what they were fighting for,” now “they will know who they were fighting against.” Journalists will be invited, and the images will appear on the big screens on May 1, 1945.
