General George S. Patton, who headed the 6th Army and whose troops liberated Buchenwald, gathered some 2,000 inhabitants from the nearby town of Weimar, and marched them the few miles that separated their comfortable lives from Buchenwald’s hell. He made them see for themselves the atrocities perpetrated by their government. The residents of Weimar, well dressed and smiling as they entered the camp, are seen in a film produced by the American army, stunned and expressing deep shock.
