People Are Sharing Conspiracy Theories That Are Obviously Fake, And I Really Hope You Don’t Believe Any Of These

“Eisenhower demanded they photograph and document it because he knew people would try to deny it happened. ‘While I was touring the camp I encountered three men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had made their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where [there] were piled up 20 or 30 naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.'”

—u/bostonwolf