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Why did General Eisenhower force German civilians to visit liberated concentration camps? Check all of the boxes that apply.
He wanted the world to know what had happened.
He wanted to pay the Germans back for their actions.
He did not want anyone to be able to deny that the Holocaust had occurred.
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Select the first and third boxes.
- He wanted the world to know what had happened. — Yes. Eisenhower insisted on bringing journalists, Congressmen, local German officials, clergy and others to the liberated camps and ordered extensive photographic and documentary evidence to be preserved so the scale and reality of the crimes would be widely seen and recorded.
- He wanted to pay the Germans back for their actions. — No. Eisenhower’s purpose was not revenge. He was concerned with documentation, accountability and preventing further ignorance or collective evasion of responsibility, not with “paying back” civilians.
- He did not want anyone to be able to deny that the Holocaust had occurred. — Yes. A central motive was to create incontrovertible eyewitness testimony and records so future denial or minimization would be impossible and so evidence would be available for trials and the historical record.
- He wanted the world to know what had happened. — Yes. Eisenhower insisted on bringing journalists, Congressmen, local German officials, clergy and others to the liberated camps and ordered extensive photographic and documentary evidence to be preserved so the scale and reality of the crimes would be widely seen and recorded.
- He wanted to pay the Germans back for their actions. — No. Eisenhower’s purpose was not revenge. He was concerned with documentation, accountability and preventing further ignorance or collective evasion of responsibility, not with “paying back” civilians.
- He did not want anyone to be able to deny that the Holocaust had occurred. — Yes. A central motive was to create incontrovertible eyewitness testimony and records so future denial or minimization would be impossible and so evidence would be available for trials and the historical record.
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