In June 1945, George Cruden, a U.S. Army officer in charge of prisoners-of-war at the U.S. Army prisoner-of-war camp in Cherbourg, France, was told that Fritz Buchholz wanted to make a statement about Auschwitz. Cruden took the report and sent it to his superiors at SHAEF. In Apr. 1994, Cruden gave his personal copy of the report to the USHRIA.