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“You Couldn’t Grasp It All”: American Forces Enter Buchenwald
American personnel faced a humanitarian catastrophe when they liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
American personnel faced a humanitarian catastrophe when they liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 gave surviving Japanese Americans reparations and a formal apology by President Reagan for their incarceration during World War II. But its passage did not happen overnight.
From the beginning, this was to be a different kind of war—a war not only of conquest but also of annihilation.
The Ruhr Pocket campaign of April 1945 ended Germany's hopes—and established the US Army.