Thread by @DoHoBOB

“The BBC was hesitant to broadcast Richard Dimbleby's report as it contained such strong imagery and needed to be corroborated.

The war correspondent threatened to ‘never broadcast again’ if the report was not played.”

#HolocaustMemorialDay

bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02…

On May 4, 1945 a unit from the 66th infantry, 71st Division came upon a POW camp. “The British prisoners told the liberating soldiers that they’d heard rumors of a different kind of camp, a concentration camp for Jews, just a few kilometers away.”

time.com/5118749/libera…

“I remember my buddies and I looked at each other. We knew Hitler wasn’t fond of Jews, but we hadn’t heard anything about any concentration camps.”

Alan Moskin marched through a forest looking for the rumored camp. “The first clue that the rumors were true was the smell.”

“Himmler had just sent a telegram to the commandant ordering the people running the camp to shoot everybody. But because the American soldiers came and surrounded the camp, he wasn’t able to carry out the order. He was afraid. He thought it best to surrender”

“I can never forgot, three inmates had pulled off the bark of a tree and were digging it into the entrails of this dead horse. And then they reached down inside the dead horse and pulled out the guts and started biting and chewing.”

Moskin, who was 18YO on the day he helped liberate that camp, is now 91 and just recently learned that he lives less than one hour away from Nandor Katz, who was a 19YO prisoner rescued that day.
fios1news.com/lowerhudsonval…

Moskin hung up the first time someone from a Holocaust museum called him asking him to speak.
“I didn’t speak for 50 years about my experience. If anyone asked me about the war, I said, ‘I did my job, I was under [General] Patton and I don’t want to talk about it.'”

Katz says he was overjoyed to meet Moskin for the first time on Aug. 11, 2017, so they could corroborate their experiences. “I was happy that I met somebody who saw the conditions, so that my story wouldn’t be lost.”

FTR, the first and second tweets are describing two separate liberation stories. As if we need further reminder (we do, sadly) that random British journos and young GIs had no reason to participate in some elabodate lie. #HolocaustMemorialDay