Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".
Eisenhower, Dwight D. "Letter to George C. Marshall." 15 Apr. 1945. The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, vol. 4, Johns Hopkins UP, 1970, p. 2616.
See Ferdinand I for the Bulgarian denial {601322}.
This was part of the continual conflict between the Muslims and the Eastern Orthodox Christians. The Greeks ended up doubling their territory.
First Published American Indian Author. His last public speech. He was referring to a horrible massacre of Christian Indians and the polarizing effect that such conflicts had. Whosoever publicly castigated a massacre of whites or Indians would be met by accusations of condoning the massacres of the other side and ignoring the inevitable and natural seeking of retaliation for future protection and revenge.
Auschwitz was the worst of the German Nazi WWII Death Camps where over 2 million people were murdered.
She had saved over 2000 Jewish Children in the Warsaw Ghetto from Death by the Nazis. As a member of the Polish Resistance, she was caught be the Germans, badly tortured, and sentenced to death which she narrowly escaped.
The deportations were the massive relocation of Armenians by the Turkish Government in 1915. In the late 19th century some Armenians tried to gain independence and were put down and massacred by the Sultan’s troops. A few decades later Russia battled Turkey. Russian Armenians and Turkish Ottoman Armenians had defected and fought for the Russians who beat the Turks badly. The Turks blamed the traitorous Armenians for the defeat and saw the Ottoman Armenians as a hostile force among them. Many Armenians were brutally massacred. Finally the Turks decided to brutally deport by foot, without sufficient provisions, the Armenians from the critically strategic area they occupied, and a huge number of Armenians died in what has been referred to as the Armenian Genocide. See {51838}, and {61904}.
The German Generals talked him out of the idea, but the quotation gives an insight into the Character of the German Leader. It never occurred to him that the Russians might retaliate and murder German prisoners.
Although a very aggressive military commander, Grant did not approve of proposals to have wars of extermination which many called for against different Native American tribes.
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower GCB OM GCS CCLH KC NPk was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front.
