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:
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