Louis Eiseman letter describing his personal impressions of Nazi concentration camps
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Louis Eiseman letter describing his personal impressions of Nazi concentration camps
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Consists of a copy of a letter written by Louis Eiseman to his younger sister in May 1945, relating Eiseman's general impressions of the sub-human conditions in the Nazi camps near the end of World War II. The letter describes children in the camps; starvation of prisoners; gassing and cremation of camp prisoners; the liquidation of Lidice, Czechoslovakia; and the torture and killing of American troops by the Germans.
Louis Eiseman (d. 1986) was a former Captain in the U.S. Army Air Forces, a member of the Office of Strategic Services in World War II, and postwar provost marshal at Dachau. He was married to Sarah Eiseman,