Edward R. Murrow thought he had seen it all.
He had spent Five and a Half years reporting on World War II for radio listeners in the United States.
He had seen cities shattered by bombs and roads lined with dead soldiers. But nothing could have prepared him for horrors of Buchenwald.
During the final days of the war, Murrow was following U.S soldiers through Nazi Germany when they discovered evidence of history's most notorious crime. Behind a ring of barbed wire lay Buchenwald, part of a vast system of concentration camps that imprisoned the Nazi regime's victims.
Inside the gates of these camps, Nazi guards had systematically murdered approximately 6 million Jews-a tragedy known today as Holocaust.
At least five million additional victims were slaughtered in camps, including Roma Jehovah's Witnesses, political leaders, prisoners of war, and other considered to be enemies of Nazis.
As Murrow entered the camp's main gate, starving inmates gathered around him. " Men and Boys reached out to touch me; they were in rags and remnants of their uniforms," Murrow reported in his broadcast. "death had already marked many of them." Some of the dies of diseases or starvation later that day.
Murrow asked a survivor to show him around the camp. Signs of unimaginable suffering were everywhere. Inmates had been, shot, beaten, whipped, and Hanged.
Others had been starved and worked to death. The barracks reeked of dead bodies and excrement. Starving children milled around, their ribs visible through their thin shirt. In a courtyard,
Murrow saw two piles of dead bodies-several hundred naked men and boys stacked up "like
cordwood."
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To Be Continued,
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