On April 12, 1945, Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton entered Ohrdruf, a subcamp in the Buchenwald concentration camp system.
(Eisenhower at Ohrdruf, courtesy of ushmm.org) Eisenhower then cabled Gen. George C. Marshall:
A few days later, he sent another message to Marshall urging media coverage on the camps:
In 1948, Gen. Eisenhower became president of Columbia University. Nearly 60 years later, the same university, which banned ROTC from its campus 37 years ago, hosted an ambassador from a regime whose leader in Tehran has called the Holocaust “a myth.” Last month, this regime held an “art” exhibition in Tehran questioning the Holocaust, and yesterday it kicked-off an international Holocaust “conference” with David Duke among the speakers. Because of Eisenhower’s foresight, the strongest antidote to the Ahmadinejads of today’s world who spin the Holocaust as “propaganda” — even those who ply their trade at the same place the general once headed — remains the photographs and film of the atrocities taken in 1945.
