we were in charge of the first 20,000 in cologne, another 20,000 of a different town, the home of leica camera. we could see the factory. we were told we would be put in charge of the buchenwald concentration camp as soon as it was liberated. so we prepared for that and it turns out the first army did not liberate the camp as planned in early april, but but general patton had taken weimar, but i don't think he called general bradley to say he was about to do it because patton was rather a freewheeling general and if he could get tanks ahead of everybody, he would do it. so he took weimar, and we were not there for the first week the camp was liberated. patton and general eisenhower and general bradley all visited the camp within the second day after it was liberated, april 13 perhaps. i think it was. they probably went in the 14th or so. they saw the hundreds of bodies and learned about the awful things which had happened at the camp, which had had about 20,000 inmates at the time. patton said the camp should remain how it was so people could see what it was like. the american press des