The major event of World War II that General Eisenhower's letter refers to is the liberation of Holocaust survivors held in concentration camps.
Read this excerpt from a letter to the US Army Chief of Staff during WWII:
But the most interesting-although horrible-sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a German
internment camp near Gotha. The things I saw [are beyond] description. While I was touring the camp I
encountered three men who had been inmates .... I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual
evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty ... were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. .
. . I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever,
in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to propaganda.
-General Dwight D. Eisenhower, letter to General George C. Marshall, April 15, 1945
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What major event of World War II does General Eisenhower's letter refer to? 1 pt
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The atrocities committed against American soldiers held in prisoner-of-war camps.
The liberation of Bataan Death March survivors held in prisoner-of-war camps.
The liberation of Holocaust survivors held in concentration camps.
The treatment of Japanese Americans held in concentration camps.
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