{"id":11944,"date":"2014-09-25T10:43:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T14:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/?page_id=11944"},"modified":"2023-12-13T05:21:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T10:21:58","slug":"murrow-buchenwald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/murrow-buchenwald\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward R. Murrow \u2013 Buchenwald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow:<\/strong>
\n An Appreciation of The Man & His Words<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Resource for
\nSocial Studies teachers & students<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"Edward<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

THE LIBERATION OF BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMP<\/p>\n

Murrow was one of a number of journalists who witnessed the liberation
\nof the Buchenwald concentration camp on April 15, 1945.<\/p>\n

What follows is from a radio interview with author Bob Edwards about
\nthat experience:<\/p>\n

“It was very clear in his Buchenwald broadcast, he was very angry. And
\nhe didn’t record it until three days later. He was furious, and it really shows
\nin the broadcast. In fact, he says, if anything I have said about Buchenwald disturbs you, I’m not in the least bit sorry. I think he was angry on several fronts, angry of course at the Nazis for what they had done, but I think he
\nwas also angry that we didn’t know. He had had some hints of the Holocaust,
\nor the “final solution,” as the Germans called it, a couple of years earlier,
\nand he had broadcast them. He was very skeptical. He said these reports,
\nif they’re true, it just seems too horrific to be true.<\/p>\n

Liberating Buchenwald, he not only found out they were true, it was even
\nworse than you could conceive. The other thing was, in the surrounding
\nvillages the people looked like they had not been at war. The people were
\nwell fed, well clothed, they had suffered no effects of this war so far.
\nThey were well inside Germany, and here, just over the fence was the
\nworst man can do to another human being. That upset him, too.<\/p>\n

As the armies liberated the camps one by one, the commanding officers
\nof the liberating troops would go round up the Germans in the neighborhood
\nand have them come to see. I think in some cases they put them to work.
\nBut mostly they wanted them to see\u2014look, your country did this.” (Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Listen:\u00a0 Visting Buchenwald – 4\/15\/45<\/a><\/p>\n

Read the full transcript of this broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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