Nazi Prison Horrors
Files
Dublin Core
Title
Nazi Prison Horrors
Subject
World War, 1939-1945
Holocaust
Description
On April 23, 1945 the Northern Virginia Daily, published in Strasburg Virginia, printed this editorial expressing outrage toward recent reports about German and Japanese atrocities.
During the preceding weeks and months, American, British, and Russian troops had been liberating Concentration Camps across Europe. Only 12 days before American troops had entered Buchenwald and liberated over 21,000 prisoners. There was extensive news coverage of this camp since the famous journalist Edward R. Murrow arrived and broadcast a report on the camp on April 15th.
Certainly the Northern Virginia Daily's readers would have been shocked by these reports. This editorial expresses the paper's disbelief all the horrors they had heard were true. Yet, as time would tell, most turned out to be fact. The so called "horror tales of the Middle Ages" would be something the readers, and us, will never forget.
During the preceding weeks and months, American, British, and Russian troops had been liberating Concentration Camps across Europe. Only 12 days before American troops had entered Buchenwald and liberated over 21,000 prisoners. There was extensive news coverage of this camp since the famous journalist Edward R. Murrow arrived and broadcast a report on the camp on April 15th.
Certainly the Northern Virginia Daily's readers would have been shocked by these reports. This editorial expresses the paper's disbelief all the horrors they had heard were true. Yet, as time would tell, most turned out to be fact. The so called "horror tales of the Middle Ages" would be something the readers, and us, will never forget.
Creator
Northern Virginia Daily
Source
Microfilm Collection
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
April 23, 1945
Citation
Northern Virginia Daily, “Nazi Prison Horrors,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed April 26, 2024, http://archives.countylib.org/items/show/5949.
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