Said five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower, unquestionably the single most importantmilitary figure of World War II, on a visit to the Ohrdruf concentration camp on April 12, 1945,“The things I saw beg description. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation,cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick . . . I made the visitdeliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in thefuture, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda’.”Ian Baxter is a nonpareil author. His two-volume offering highlights the atrocious wickednessand evil Hitler’s Nazi sycophants were capable of. The chief or commander responsible for thedeath camps was Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler (1900-45), officer cadet, agriculturalgraduate and poultry farmer before he joined the Nazi Party in 1923, who saw to it the Jewswere to live in the most deplorable conditions. For years Jews were beaten, starved, andtortured. Life in the camps was to mean hopelessness and apathy. For a feeling of safety, theJews had to huddle together in a single room or space fearfully waiting for what or who wouldbust through the door and massacre. No sanitation, none whatsoever, or heat, and no light.Few of the elderly or young were capable of helping themselves.In short, Ian Baxter has given us, not ONE, but TWO, first-class photo-capsule biographic-
histories of unflinching systematic camp murder.
