What was the overall reaction of Allied soldiers who liberated the concentration and death camps?

1 Answer
Mar 6, 2016

Probably disbelief and then rage.

Explanation:

The spectacle that appeared in front of the soldiers that arrived and liberated the concentration camps was even more hellish than what they had experienced fighting the war up to that moment (for difficult that this may serm!).
Probably the majority could not even rationalize the true extent of the horror they were witnessing.

I think that this was the reason that led the American General G. Patton to round up the inhabitants of the villages around the camp of Buchenwald and to force them to look at the horrors perpetrated in that place...to fix in their minds the reality of that terrible event!