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Eisenhower Response to Patton’s Letter Regarding Discovery of Camp in Weimar

(April 18, 1945)

Response of General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower to letter from Lt. General George Patton regarding his discovery of a concentration camp in Weimar. Eisenhower agrees with Patton that visitors be brought to see the camp.

Click here to read the letter.

Click here to read Patton’s original letter.

Source: Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box 91, Patton George S. Jr. (1); NAID #12007733 Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

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