Here is an eyewitness account of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp as experienced by U.S. Representative Clare Boothe Luce (R, Connecticut, pictured above):
“At Buchenwald I have seen crematories, rows upon rows of burning ovens, still full of splintered, charred human bones and skulls and blackened corpses. I have seen cartloads of horribly emaciated corpses, starved and tortured bodies, piled like kindling wood in the courtyard outside the crematory, waiting to be fired when the Americans came. I have seen the rooms where men have been beaten and strung up by the neck to die for some small breach of camp discipline.”
Eight years earlier the Congresswoman had been the toast of Broadway…
