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Nazi Prison Horrors

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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.

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 November 21, 2024, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/5949.

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