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After the first sickening blows of horror brought by the news of the German concentration camps came the question: how succor the human remnants left alive? From Buchenwald last week TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth reported how U.S. Army doctors have tackled...
...120th U.S. Army Evacuation Hospital, commanded by Colonel William E. Williams of Austin, Tex., has fallen the terrible task of trying to save the lives of the Buchenwald sick and starving. The hospital moved into Buchenwald April 16 and since then has been working at top speed, helped by French, German, Czech, Hungarian and other doctors among the inmates...
There were 2,180 sick in the camp hospital alone when the hospital unit arrived. The first evening they got 161 more, from the barracks and the so-called "Small Camp"-the worst section of Buchenwald, where the dying were sent when they were considered beyond human care. Most of these patients were suffering from diarrhea, caused simply by lack of food. In the Small Camp men were still dying by the hundreds...
...sickening, inhuman record of Germany's prison camps, many Americans saw only one answer: the Nazis have put themselves beyond the pale of humanity. This week the Christian Century looked at Buchenwald and saw more than that...
...Buchenwald and the other memorials of Nazi infamy reveal the depths to which humanity can sink, and has sunk, in these frightful years...