Nadene Goldfoot
Former prisoners of Wöbbelin, called "lower than animals" by Patton. Jews of a subcamp of Neuengamme, are taken to a hospital for medical attention. Germany, May 4, 1945., probably after Eisenhower stepped in to find how they had been treated. American forces began liberating concentration camp prisoners, including thousands of Jewish survivors, in April 1945.
- April 4, 1945: U.S. forces liberated the Ohrdruf subcamp of Buchenwald.
- April 11, 1945: The U.S. 3rd Army (Sixth Armored Division) entered Buchenwald, finding over 21,000 surviving prisoners.
- April 13, 1945: U.S. troops intercepted and liberated a Nazi train carrying roughly 2,500 Jewish prisoners who had been evacuated from Bergen-Belsen.
- April 23, 1945: The U.S. 90th Infantry Division liberated the Flossenbürg concentration camp.
- April 29, 1945: U.S. forces (including the 42nd Rainbow Division, 45th Infantry Division, and 20th Armored Division) liberated the Dachau concentration camp.
- Early May 1945: American forces also liberated camps such as Dora-Mittelbau and Mauthausen
Auschwitz II-Birkenau gatehouse seen from inside the camp. The train track, in operation from May to October 1944, led toward the gas chambers.. Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz II): The largest Nazi complex, where over 1 million people—mostly Jews—were murdered using Zyklon B poison gas in industrial gas chambers and provisional farmhouses.
- Treblinka: An extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of victims were murdered using stationary gas chambers powered by engine exhaust.
- Bełżec: A death camp utilizing stationary gas chambers with carbon monoxide from diesel engines.
- Sobibór: An extermination camp equipped with gas chambers using carbon monoxide
- Chełmno (Kulmhof): The first Nazi killing center, which used mobile gas vans starting in December 1941.
- Majdanek: A combined concentration and extermination camp near Lublin, Poland, using both Zyklon B and carbon monoxide.
- Other Camps: Poison gas (primarily Zyklon B) was also used irregularly or in smaller capacities at concentration camps such as Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, Stutthof, Ravensbrück, and Neuengamme.
At the end of World War II (late 1944 and into 1945), surviving Jewish prisoners were found and killed by the SS and Nazi guards primarily during death marches and evacuations from concentration camps and ghettos as the German Reich collapsed.
- Death Marches from Poland and the Reich: As Soviet forces advanced from the east and Allied forces closed in from the west, the SS evacuated remaining prisoners from camps like Auschwitz, Stutthof, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald. Tens of thousands of Jewish and other prisoners were forced to march on foot in brutal winter conditions or crammed into open freight cars. Those who collapsed, could not keep pace, or tried to escape were shot on the spot by guards.
- Concentration and Transit Camps: In camps such as Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Mauthausen, and Jasenovac, thousands of starving and sick Jewish prisoners died from extreme neglect, disease (such as typhus), exhaustion, or late-stage executions by camp staff right up until Allied liberation.
- And that Allied liberation; something the Jews had been waiting for with their remaining breaths, were led by a Nazi-loving monster, America's Gen George Patton ! No one could have been worse. He kept the Nazi order and maintained their feelings towards Jews!!!
Born: 11 November 1885 in San Gabriel, California, U.S.
Died: 21 December 1945 (aged 60) Heideberg, Germany
I was aghast at finding on you tube, information about Gen. George S. Patton. Now I find it's true. He was a true anti-Semite.
General George S. Patton held extreme antisemitic views that heavily influenced his administration of post-World War II displaced persons (DP) camps in the American occupation zone of Germany. To think that Jews in the worst of conditions were transferred to another camp and then treated with the same hatred as the Nazis showed is unforgivable.
Treatment of Jewish Survivors: Unbelievable
- Dehumanizing Views: Following World War II, Patton was tasked with overseeing DP camps. In his private diaries and letters, he wrote virulently antisemitic remarks, describing Jewish Holocaust survivors as "lower than animals" and claiming they had "no sense of human relationships".
- Displaced Persons (DP) camps were temporary facilities established after World War II in Germany, Austria, and Italy by Allied forces and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA).Remember the ship, The Exodus? A group of former Exodus 1947 passengers stand behind the barbed wire enclosure at the Poppendorf displaced persons camp in Germany. The Exodus 1947 was an illegal immigrant ship carrying 4500 Jewish displaced persons from Europe to Palestine during the final year of the British Mandate. It became the symbol of the struggle for the right of unrestricted Jewish immigration into Palestine and the need for a Jewish national home. In November 1946 the Mosad le-Aliya Bet (the Agency for Illegal Immigration) acquired an American ship, the President Warfield, an old Chesapeake Bay pleasure steamer. During World War II, the vessel had been converted into a troop ship for the British navy. After taking part in the Allied landing at Normandy, the ship was taken out of service and anchored in the ships' graveyard in Baltimore. Immediately after the Mosad purchased the vessel, its interior was reconfigured in order to maximize the number of passengers it could hold. By the end of January 1947 the initial conversion was comp...Overview of DP Camps
- Population: They housed roughly 850,000 to 1 million uprooted individuals at their peak, including Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp prisoners, former prisoners of war, forced laborers, and refugees fleeing Soviet rule in Eastern Europe.
- Management & Relief: Early conditions were harsh and overcrowded, as documented in the 1945 Harrison Report, leading to gradual improvements under Allied military oversight, UNRRA, and later the International Refugee Organization (IRO) alongside Jewish relief groups like the Joint Distribution Committee.
- Harsh Camp Conditions: Patton maintained strict, prison-like conditions for Jewish displaced persons, keeping them under armed guard and delaying improvements to food, sanitation, and medical care.
- Resistance to Orders: When Earl G. Harrison—dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an envoy for President Harry S. Truman—inspected the camps and reported that Jewish survivors were being treated similarly to how the Nazis treated them (short of extermination), Patton angrily rejected the findings.
- De-Nazification and Conflict with Superiors
- Employment of Former Nazis: Patton disobeyed Allied de-nazification directives by continuing to employ former Nazi party members and officials in administrative and supervisory roles over Jewish survivors.
- Conspiracy Beliefs: Patton recorded in his diary and expressed the belief that de-nazification efforts and pressure to help Jewish DPs were part of a "Semitic revenge virus" or a political plot.
- Removal from Command: President Truman strongly criticized Patton's administration, leading General Dwight D. Eisenhower to remove Patton from his post as military governor and commander of the Third/Fifteenth Army due to his insubordination and public controversies regarding his views on Jewish survivors
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- Patton angrily rejected the findings







