Buchenwald Concentration Camp Report Surfaces

Healing the harms

The expression “freedom isn’t free” means a lot to me. The sacrifices service men and women have made (and continue to make) in service of their country are worthy of recognition to the extent that they are helping to protect the rights and way of life of people they’ve never met. In short, I “support the troops.” But let’s follow the story here, a quick loan from the pages of history, a loan that President Obama should repay with interest.

The ties of duty and the promise that he would make sure people would know what transpired at Buchenwald concentration camp have driven retired Army intelligence officer Albert Rosenberg for over 60 years. Now 91 and living in El Paso, Texas, Rosenberg collected evidence at Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald back in April of 1945. His directive was to “investigate what really happened in that particular (liberated) camp,” Rosenberg said to Darren Meritz of the El Paso Times. “The allied governments wanted to know what happened in those camps.” The report Rosenberg and his colleagues produced was quickly classified because it contained the names of Communist foreign of ficials from nations with which the United States was attempting to form diplomatic ties.

Now Rosenberg’s copy has resurfaced

And he’s “looking to the White House for help in what may be the last mission of his life,” writes Meritz.

This coincides with President Obama’s recent visit to the site of Buchenwald concentration camp. Rosenberg remembered a list of 321 captured U.S. Army and British Royal Air Force men who had been held at Buchenwald. He sent that list to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel with a handwritten note explaining how these men needed to be identified. The wounds needed to heal. ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "Buchenwald Concentration Camp Report Surfaces"