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| | History of Gotha |
 | | Eisenhower mentioned Gotha in his book "Crusade in Europe," as the nearest city to the "horror camp" at Ohrdruf-Nord, the first concentration camp to be discovered in Germany by American soldiers on April 4, 1945, but he failed to mention his own notorious POW camp located near Gotha. |
 | | Eisenhower signed this order before he had even seen the horrors of the concentration camps, which so affected him. |
 | | After 1947, most of the records of the POW camps were destroyed by the U.S. government, according to James Bacque, the author of a book entitled "Other Losses." Bacque wrote that the Germans claimed that 1,700,000 soldiers, who were alive at the end of the war and had surrendered to the Allies, never returned home. |
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